Their Own Marching Band
Category: Wordless Wednesday
Elections Past
My uncle Hugh Cleage standing by the sound car he rigged up for an election in 1962 Detroit. My sister, Aunt Gladys and I spent hours in that car riding through our community.
yates for congress, disavows illustrated news support 05 Aug 1962, Sun Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan) Newspapers.com
Henry Wadsworth Cleage
Naomi Tulane Vincent and son Hubert
Naomi was the single surviving daughter of Victor and Willie (Allen) Tulane of Montgomery, Alabama. Two daughters died in infancy. She married Dr. Ubert Conrad of New York City on April 28, 1920. The two met while she was accompanying her father on a trip north to promote Ala-Ga syrup. This picture was taken about 1925.
Uncle Hugh with friends George and Paul Payne
More Visitors in the yard
Another in the series of photographs taken in my maternal grandparents yard in Detroit. Shell was my grandfather. John Wesley was my grandmother’s first cousin who was visiting from Chicago. This photo was taken the same day as the fourth photo down on the linked page, dated September 21, 1961. On the back of the photo it says “Our backyard 9-21-1961 (right to left) John Wesley, John Bishops son, Ernest and Shell”
Grandmother Clock
Several years ago I made a picture to place on a clock face by printing photographs of my grandmother Fannie on a piece of acetate and cutting it to fit on a clock. I removed the plastic cover, took the hands off and lay the photo on top of the face. The numbers showed through. I replaced the hands and cover and it was a fully working clock.
Fannie’s Pillow
My father and my grandmother
Albert B Cleage Sr. and Jr. – 1912
