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When: 01 January 1957

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Brooks, Charlotte,, 1918-2014,, photographer.

[Image from LOOK - Job 57-7621 titled Myers family]

1957 Dec. 20 (date added to Look's library)

1 photograph : film negative.

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Photograph shows Daisy Myers, who with her husband William, was the first black resident of Levittown, Pennsylvania, talking on the telephone.
Photograph is part of LOOK - Job 57-7621: Myers family. www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016714377
Title devised by Library staff.

Subjects:
Myers, Daisy D.
African Americans.
Telephones.
Integration.
United States--Pennsylvania--Levittown.

Format: Film negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "Charlotte Brooks for LOOK Magazine Photograph ...," hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.133.bro

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Look magazine photograph collection (Library of Congress) (DLC) 94837687

More information about the LOOK magazine collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.lmc

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.73496

Call Number: LC-L9-57-7621-S, no. 8

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    chair_egg_ee_no

    • 15/May/2022 01:47:37

    I like the environmental portrait and can't recall seeing an interior photo from Levittown. Wall phone is a Western Electric 564 with a 7-type dial, if anyone cares. This means Levittown was served by one of the Bell System companies.