Type: Photopage 54

Helen Claiborne, Ethel Claiborne and Erma Claiborne

In the 1940s and 1950s much of the organized entertainment in Lakeland was provided by social clubs. These clubs met monthly at the homes of the members. Dinners were part of the gathering and provided the host an opportunity to showcase both their cooking ability and their tableware. The Duchesses and the Counts social clubs sponsored an annual formal dance at Lakeland Hall and sometimes posed for professional photographs. The Duchesses social club was photographed here during their 1947 evening social event. They are, from left to right, Mary Walls Weems, Cecilia Brooks Stewart, Gertrude Walls Corprew, Evelyn Giles Tyner, Florence Wethers, Martha Edwards, Pearl Brooks Briscoe, and Eliza Gray.

Rear left to right James Edwards II, Rev. Baddy, James Clemons, center William Gray, Mr. Hart, George Henry Gross front Thomas Randall, unknown. George Brooks Sr, Dessie Thomas, Arthur Brooks

5400 Cleveland Ave. Block 45 Lot 6 Parcel 18-3 Paul & Delores Parker

Cropped image

Wedding of Billy Jones and Violetta Sharps took place on the grounds of the bride's family home in the eastern part of Lakeland.

Exhibition scan

Wilmer Gross and daughters Delphine and Maxine at home of her husband's parents, George Henry and Agnes Gross. Located on Cloud Avenue

The churches of Lakeland have always been the true soul of the community. Gathering for dinner on the lawn of Embry AME Church has long been a summer tradition in Lakeland. In this 1962 photograph, William Sharps is shown wearing chefs whites preparing the day's meal. Seated in the foreground is Dora Robinson (third from the right) along with some friends, including Jacob Johnson, wearing the hat. (Courtesy of the Gross family)

Steated in the center row third from the left is Pauline Gray

University of Maryland Residential Facilities staff Black History Month program featuring presentation on Lakeland

From parade sponsored by Lakeland's Elk's

Presentation of University of Maryland class research on education in Lakeland. The work was undertaken in partnership with Lakeland Community Heritage Project and under the guidance of Dr. Mary Sies. Report was presented to Lakeland community in form of a video titled Folks Made the School. The presentation was scheduled as a Black History Month event

During the 1965-66 school year Lakeland Elementary School kindergarten on visit to see farm animals at barns on campus of University of Maryland their class was accompanied by parents and their teacher. In the image see students and a parent, Fannie Douglas.

Benjamin Robert Hicks, born in Calvert County, Maryland in 1873. He moved to Lakeland in 1900 and married Annie L. Terry. They raised three children--Ethel, Madeline, and Maurice. Hicks was a founder and deacon of Embry AME Church. He was employed as a member of the maintenance and repair crew for the nearby B&O Railroad.

Yearbook page

Mayor Alvin Kushner and Councilman Dervey Lomax at city hall

Tabbs Home on Navahoe Street

Furniture and mural have changed from earlier images. Scene was set for James Tyrone and Kathleen Campbell Kennedy

In the 1940s and 1950s much of the organized entertainment in Lakeland was provided by social clubs. These clubs met monthly at the homes of the members. Dinners were part of the gathering and provided the host an opportunity to showcase both their cooking ability and their tableware. The Duchesses and the Counts social clubs sponsored an annual formal dance at Lakeland Hall and sometimes posed for professional photographs. The Counts appear here in formal tails and white gloves. The gentlemen are, left to right (left row) Gasson Bradford Sr., James Weems, Anderson Walls, George Walls, Charles Carroll, and Harry Braxton Sr.; (right row) Mack Allen, John Webster, William Sharps, Aubrey Corprew, Chesley Mack, and Ashby Tolson.

Crop from 1929 Aerial Photo

Lot 10 Block 44

Request to name the media center at Paint Branch School in honor of John C. Johnson

Dignitaries at groundbreaking event for Spellman House Apartments the first redevelopment project for urban renewal in Lakeland

Lola Giles holding Violetta Sharps on front porch of Sharps home, Block 34, Lot 6, 1949

4906 Navahoe St Project Parcel 20-6

In performance at University of Maryland's Memorial Chapel during concert sponsored by Lakeland Community Heritage Project

At First Baptist Church of College Park

Dervey Lomax, Karen Hampton, Anna and Dermot Owens