Just peeking ahead to the material for March 3... This is a photo from 1930 of Eric Walrond and Shirley Graham, who would later marry W.E.B. Du Bois. When I came across it in the Schlesinger Women's History Library at Harvard last year in Shirley Graham's manuscript files, neither the man nor the location were identified, only Shirley. But because I had been researching Walrond, knew what he looked like, and knew he traveled with Ms. Graham in Paris that year, I alerted the archivist of her companion's name. The location proved more difficult, but after consulting a couple of French historians it seemed clear that the Palace of Versailles is almost certainly it. Although she's best known for having been Du Bois' wife, Shirley Graham was a really interesting person in her own right. Walrond corresponded with her for a while after she returned to the U.S., where she taught music at Morgan State College in B'more.
Totally cool. Yeah, it would be bough to place that background (if you've ever been to France, that building style is basically EVERYWHERE, especially along the Seine in Paris), but Palace at Versailles seems right.
ReplyDelete*it would be tough -- but maybe it would also be bough... who knows?
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