African American Black Freemasonry Couple Hooks Brothers Photo Memphis 1940-50s

Estate sale find, vintage original African American Black Freemasonry Shriner Couple. Hooks School of Photography, 223 Linden Avenue Memphis Tennessee.

And his brother Robert B. Hooks in 1907, Hooks Brothers Photography Studio was the second oldest continuously operating black business in Memphis.

Located during its early years at 164 Beale Street, it next moved to Linden Avenue and finally to McLemore Avenue, where it ceased operation after a destructive fire in 1979. Covering much of the 20th century, the company chronicled and documented the history and lives of black Memphis and Memphians.

Among the subjects and luminaries captured on film by the Hooks Brothers were Booker T. Church, the beginning days of the Memphis NAACP, the Lincoln League, early high school and college graduating classes from Howe Institute, LeMoyne College, and many other activities of black society and ordinary people. PLEASE SEE DESCRIPTION AND PHOTOS FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS - AS IS - SIGNS OF WEAR - AGE TONING - DISCOLORATION - FADING - SOILING - STAINS - CREASES - SCUFFS - RUBBING - TEARS - CHIPPING - WRITING - ROUNDED CORNERS - MISCUT - GLUE RESIDUE - The item appears to be in overall Fair to Good Minus used condition, no odors, please see images.

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