This photo is from the Gwendolyn Hooker album. Violet (Vyolette) Hooker was a talented soprano who performed regularly on KGW and at various fundraisers organized by local women’s groups. During her 30 year career as a singer, she was a soloist in the choirs of First AME Zion and Woodlawn Methodist churches. She frequently shared bills with local civil rights leader Beatrice Morrow Cannady (a noted mezzo-soprano) and her sister Gwendolyn, who was known for her talent as an elocutionist. Gwendolyn and Violet also operated a business called Flower Mecca out of the family home at 6126 NE Halsey and at 6540 NE 66th into the 1960s. The duo was even featured in an Oregonian article published in August of 1940 detailing how the sisters crafted award-winning painted containers for plants out of old acetate phonograph records. A Portland Family Album - 1995 exhibition at Blue Sky Gallery http://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibition/a-portland-family-album-self-portrait-of-an-african–american-community/#1