Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection, circa 1930s-1950s

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Summary

Creators:
Bean, Sandra.
Abstract:
The Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection includes nine reels of 8mm and 16mm film documenting African Americans beginning in the late 1930s. The home movies include four b&w and four color films totaling 103 minutes and shows women gardening, children playing, sleeping car porters traveling across the country working for the Pullman Company, and families enjoying their leisure time dancing and fishing. A majority of the footage is thought to be taken by Ernest Bean, a sleeping car porter from the Bay Area, and documents the work of sleeping car porters working for the Pullman Company and middle class African Americans in the Bay Area during the 1930s-1940s.
Extent:
1.5 linear feet (1 box)
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English
Preferred citation:

Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection, MS 160, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection includes nine reels of 8mm and 16mm film documenting African Americans beginning in the late 1930s. The home movies include four b&w and four color films totaling 103 minutes and shows women gardening, children playing, sleeping car porters traveling across the country working for the Pullman Company, and families enjoying their leisure time dancing and fishing. A majority of the footage is thought to be taken by Ernest Bean, a sleeping car porter from the Bay Area, and documents the work of sleeping car porters working for the Pullman Company and middle class African Americans in the Bay Area during the 1930s-1940s. The collection also includes four portraits of members of the Bean family.

Acquisition information:
Collection was donated by Sandra Bean to the African American Museum Library at Oakland in January 2007.
Processing information:

Processed by Sean Heyliger on December 3, 2014.

Arrangement:

Series I: Home movies Series II: Photographs

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Original film reels restricted. Digital files are open to the public.

Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish from the Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.

Preferred citation:

Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection, MS 160, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.

Location of this collection:
659 14th Street
Oakland, CA 94612, US
Contact:
(510) 637-0198
aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org
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