Sale 2536 | Lot 312

(AFRICAN AMERICAN--FASHION)
An archive of approximately 70 photographs from Dayton, Ohio documenting African American runway shows, models, and designers.
The collections apparently primarily designed by Dorothy Roebuck and shown by The Dayton Strivers Club. This dynamic archive features photographs of the models posing in their elegant garments and walking the runway; also with a few shots of the clothing being handcrafted and a contact sheet from a shoot that appears to be set in Paris. Chromogenic (42) and silver (28) prints, the images measuring 3 inches square to 9½x7½ inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, many stapled to colorful construction paper mounts and some with applied gold star stickers to obscure the model's face, the larger format images are not mounted. Circa 1957-61
Accompanied by 7 programs from The Dayton Strivers Club shows, including crediting Dorothy Roebuck as designer (and in one instance Dorothy Edwards) as well as the models; with one duplicate, and one program from an Edison, New Jersey show related to Roebuck.

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