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Title: Rushing family photograph collection
Dates: circa 1860s – circa 1980s
Bulk Dates: bulk 1910s-1940s
Collection number: MS 216
Collection Size:
.5 linear feet
(2 boxes + 1 oversized box)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Oakland, CA 94612
Abstract: The Rushing Family Photograph Collection consists of 200 photographs and ephemera. The bulk of the photographs document the
lives of African Americans in northern Louisiana in the vicinity of the towns of Arcadia, Bienville, Minden, and Simsboro
and Oakland, California. Collection is also significant for photographs of African American soldiers during World War I.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Permission to publish from the Rushing Family Photograph Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library
at Oakland.
Rushing family photograph collection, MS 216, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland,
California.
Collection donated by anonymous donor.
Processed by Kye Ocasio-Pare 7/14/2018
Scope and Content of Collection
The Rushing Family Photograph Collection consists of 200 photographs and ephemera. The bulk of the photographs document the
lives of African Americans in northern Louisiana in the vicinity of the towns of Arcadia, Bienville, Minden, and Simsboro
and Oakland, California. Collection is also significant for photographs of African American soldiers during World War I. The
collection appears to document the Great Migration of African Americans to California from the American South during World
War II. There are also 29 photos that are souvenir images of scenery of Yellowstone National Park and Columbia River Gorge
National Scenic Area.
The collection has no known provenance. The collection is named after the Rushing family as it is the most frequently mentioned
name on the back of several photographs. Other surnames that appear frequently in the collection are Gordon, Harris, Isaac,
and White.
Series I. Photographs
Series II. Ephemera
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Yellowstone National Park--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
World War, 1914-1918--Portraits.
African Americans--Military service.
African Americans--Migrations--History--20th century.
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area (Or. and Wash.)
African Americans--California--Oakland--History--Pictorial works
Simsboro (La.)
Arcadia (La.)