Zack Tanner
ztanner@post-gazette.com
February 22, 2018
Women in Calloway home
Edith McColes Whitaker, center of the back row, wears a large hat and a necklace of pearls at a ladies luncheon held at Julia Calloway's Mooseheart Street Home, 1941. She was the grandmother of Mark Whitaker, author of "Smoketown." The women in this picture are Nellie Kent, Mary Harris, Frances Johnson, Carol Williams, Carrie Rieck, Ann Hale, Lillie Mae Penn, Jeraldine Porter, Hazel Betters, Urshe Kincaide, Marie Winters, Catherine Streeter Wilson, Bessie Jackson, Abbie McCloud, Julia Calloway wearing key brooch, and Lil Mae Surcey. ( © Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive )