Bentley Historical Library: Orville Z. Frazier Photograph Album

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Orville Zackariah Frazier (1896-1971) was an African American engineer and inventor who lived in Elkhart, Indiana, as well as Grand Rapids and River Rouge, Michigan. This digitized album contains photographs and cartes de visite from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries of the Frazier and Burden (his mother's) families, their homes, and acquaintances in Indiana.

Outdoor family portrait with two books ("The Authentic Life of William McKinley, Memorial Edition" and "Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer"), ca. 1901.

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