Photo of Washington, D.C. Girl Scouts at a Protest

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Title

Photo of Washington, D.C. Girl Scouts at a Protest

Subject

History
Local history
People 1970-1980
Protest, culture and society

Description

This is a photo taken by Irene Stewart Kellogg of Princess Mae Richardson and two young girl scouts. They were at a protest against the closing of the 12th street YMCA. The photo was taken at 12th and S Streets NW.

The back side of this photo biographical information about Richardson is written. It explains that in addition to leading girl scouts, Richardson was a Jazz harpist, and teacher of voice, choir, piano, and organ. She was trained at Miners Teacher College in Boston, MA, the Boston Conservatory of Music, and the New England Conservatory of Music. She has been described as "minister of music" for Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, and Presbyterian churches. Her father was Dr. Richard Richardson (1865-1937) and mother was Mae Jones Richardson (1870-1953).

Creator

Kellogg, Irene C. Stewart

Source

Your DC Digital Museum, Washington, DC, Capitol Hill; 12 December 2015

Publisher

Humanities Council of Washington, DC

Date

ca 1979

Contributor

Kellogg, Irene C. Stewart

Rights

Creative Commons License
Photo of Washington, D.C. Girl Scouts at a Protest is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Format

.tiff
Photographs

Type

Still Image

Identifier

034.YDCDM.2015

Coverage

Washington, DC
Ward 2
Shaw

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Original Format

Photograph

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