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Title: Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection
Dates: circa 1930s-1950s
Collection number: MS 160
Creator:
Bean, Sandra.
Collection Size:
1.5 linear feet
(1 box)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Oakland, CA 94612
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.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Original film reels restricted. Digital files are open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library
at Oakland.
Sandra Bean Home Movie Collection, MS 160, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland,
California.
Collection was donated by Sandra Bean to the African American Museum & Library at Oakland in January 2007.
Processed by Sean Heyliger on December 3, 2014.
Scope and Content of Collection
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.
Series I: Home movies
Series II: Photographs
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
African American railroad employees.
African American families--California.
Amateur films.
Berkeley (Calif.)--Pictorial works.
Pullman cars--History.