Nina Gomer Du Bois as a young woman, circa 1898
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- Box 1, Image RL.11953-P-0004
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Studio portrait of Nina Gomer Du Bois as a young woman, likely after her marriage to Du Bois in 1896. She is wearing a large, wide-brimmed dark hat trimmed with white flowers, white top with a "pigeon breast" bodice and dark skirt with a corselette, and is wearing at her waist a small purse with a hankerchief. Three-quarter portrait, albumen process; oval print attached to thick card mount. Debossed on lower right front: Hodges Art Gallery / 529 State St. / Bristol, Tenn. No other markings.
- Biographical / historical:
- Nina Gomer was born either in 1870 or 1871 in Quincy, Illinois. She grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. While a student at Wilberforce University in Ohio, she met W.E.B. Du Bois, and they married in 1896, after which she took up the traditional role of a homemaker. She had two children with Du Bois, one of whom, Burghardt, died at the age ot two of typhoid. Her daughter Yolande lived to adulthood. Nina Gomer Du Bois died in Baltimore in 1950 and is buried in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
- Dimensions:
- Image/sheet: 3 5/8 x 1 3/4 inches; mount: 7 1/8 x 4 1/4 inches
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