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Ohio History Connection - Property Files
Description: Photograph of a man standing before a closet at the Dunbar House with clothing and a bicycle likely used by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, 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: AL03331
Subjects: Authors, American--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906--Homes and haunts--Ohio
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)