This black and white photo shows a nicely dressed white woman standing at the Fordyce Bathhouse counter with a clerk behind the counter. The woman is wearing a winter coat with a fur stole collar, hat, and gloves. The clerk is a younger white woman. The counter is tall, coming up higher than the waist and made of marble. Behind the counter on the wall is a bank of brass lock boxes and there is a sign with the bathhouse rates hanging on the lockers.
Fordyce desk with clerk, ca. 1940
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Management employees tended to reflect the race of the clientele - African American in the Crystal, Pythian, Woodmen of the Union and National Baptist.
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