Accession No. RARE.2019.0110: Larry Michaels, 2019 October
[identification of item], Alice Dunbar Nelson and Dog Photograph, Inscribed to Mrs. Clarence R. Wagner, SPEC.RARE.MMS.0353, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Ohio State University
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Processed by: Nicole Miller, 2019 October; Finding aid written by: Nicole Miller, 2019 October
Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935) was an African American a poet, journalist, and a political activist. Dunbar Nelson graduated from Straight University in 1892, after which she became a teacher in New Orleans. She published her first collection of poems and short stories “Violets and Other Tales” in 1895. Dunbar Nelson was married to the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar from 1898 until his death in 1906; she later married Robert J. Nelson, a civil rights activist and poet, in 1916. Dunbar Nelson co-edited the newspaper "The Wilmington Advocate" with her husband, Robert J. Nelson, and the columns she wrote were then syndicated nationally.
The Alice Dunbar Nelson and Dog Photograph, Inscribed to Mrs. Clarence R. Wagner is a black and white photograph pasted on board, depicting Alice in daytime dress and hat seated on a table next to a medium sized dog (possibly an Akita or Chow Chow). The photograph is inscribe in blue ink "To Clarence R. Wagner (Mrs.) Souvenir of Alice Nelson Aug. 14, '20."