Digital Image, Lunch Counter at Chattanooga Bank Building 1954

Photograph

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Picnooga

D 2022.087.001 Recto: Black and white image of a girl operating the lunch counter at the Chattanooga Bank Building in 1945
D 2022.087.001 Recto

Black and white image of a girl operating the lunch counter at the Chattanooga Bank Building in 1945

Name/Title

Digital Image, Lunch Counter at Chattanooga Bank Building 1954

Entry/Object ID

D 2022.087.001

Description

A born digital image of Bettye Parker at the lunch counter inside the lobby of Chattanooga Bank Building in 1954. The black and white image shows Bettye Parker as a young woman, approximately age 23, serving a Coca-Cola to a patron. A soda machine can be seen on the opposite side of the counter from her and a magazine stand in the background.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Digital Scan Donation

Subject Person or Organization

Bettye Parker

Subject Place

Location

Chattanooga Bank Building, 11 West 8th Street

* Untyped Subject Place

Chattanooga, Tennessee*

Collection

Chattanooga Business Collection

Copyright

Restrictions

Credit Chattanooga Historical Society Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only