Dunbar House parlor photograph   Save
Ohio History Connection - Property Files
Description: Photograph of two young girls seated on a chair in the parlor of the Dunbar House, ca. 1938. This home, at 219 Paul Laurence Dunbar Street in Dayton, Ohio, was the final home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. After Dunbar's death in 1906 his mother, Matilda Dunbar, continued to live in the house until her death in 1934. In 1936 the Dunbar House became the first state memorial to honor an African American. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03328
Subjects: Children--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906--Homes and haunts--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio)