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Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library Photo Archives
Title: Portrait photographs of African Americans
Identifier/Call Number: photCL 665
Physical Description:
0.8 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1880s-1930s (bulk
1880s-1900s)
Abstract: Nine photographs of unidentified
African American men, women, and children.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
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[Identification of item]. Portrait photographs of African Americans, The Huntington
Library, San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Nancy Rosin, 2017.
Received along with the Nancy and Henry Rosin Collection of Valentine, Friendship, and
Devotional Ephemera. Transferred to Photograph Collections, 2022.
A group of nine photographs of unidentified African American men, women, and children,
mostly studio portraits taken between approximately 1888 and 1910. One photograph of a young
man and woman dates to the 1930s and has been made into a metal button. Three card
photographs have photographer's imprints from Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Jersey City, New Jersey; and
Philadelphia. There is also a photographic postcard and a double-sided stereograph, possibly
from the early 1900s, with images of a Black couple on a swing on one side, and a group of
Black children playing marbles on the other side, with stereotypical language in the printed
captions.
Processed by Suzanne Oatey in May 2022.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
African Americans -- Photographs.
Children -- Photographs
Photographic postcards
Photographs
Portraits
Stereographs