Helena Harper Coates, social worker, circa 1925-1930

Item Overview

Title

Helena Harper Coates, social worker, circa 1925-1930

Alternative title

Edwin and Helena Harper Coates

Date Created

[circa 1925-1930]

Date

1920/1930

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

Studio portrait of Helena Hester Harper Coates, wearing a beaded 1920s style dress and an embroidered shawl.
Helen Harper Coates was the Executive Secretary of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies. In 1938, she married Edwin Coates, a pianist, composer and faculty member of the Martin-Smith School of Music, who graduated from the Institute of Musical Art (which later merged with the Juilliard Graduate School to form the Juilliard School).

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

Portrait photographs

Names

Coates, Helen Hester Harper, 1906-1991

Resource type

still image

Subjects

African American social workers