Descriptive Summary
Access
Access Restrictions
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Processing Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Ida Hill photograph collection
Dates: circa 1860s-1971
Collection number: MS 58
Creator:
Hill, Ida.
Collection Size:
.1 linear feet
(2 folders)
Repository:
African American Museum & Library at Oakland (Oakland, Calif.)
Abstract: The Ida Hill Photograph Collection includes 29 photographs of various members of the Hill and Robinson families, group photographs
of African American masons, and Dicy Robinson’s memorial card. A bulk of the collection are family photographs of William
and Ida Hill and their children William Hill Jr., Alfred Hill, and Beverly Hill in Oakland and Alameda, California. The collection
also includes a cabinet card taken in New Orleans, Louisiana, most likely of Ida Robinson Hill’s father sometime in the 1860s
and a group photograph of the Robinson family taken in front of their home in the 1890s. The collection includes ten group
photographs of various African American masonic groups in California in the 1930-1950s.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.
Access Restrictions
Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.
Publication Rights
Permission to publish from the Ida Hill Photograph Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library
at Oakland.
Preferred Citation
Ida Hill photograph collection, MS 58, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.
Processing Information
Processed by Sean Heyliger, 09/12/2013.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Ida Hill Photograph Collection includes 29 photographs of various members of the Hill and Robinson families, group photographs
of African American masons, and Dicy Robinson’s memorial card. A bulk of the collection are family photographs of William
and Ida Hill and their children William Hill Jr., Alfred Hill, and Beverly Hill in Oakland and Alameda, California. The collection
also includes a cabinet card taken in New Orleans, Louisiana, most likely of Ida Robinson Hill’s father sometime in the 1860s
and a group photograph of the Robinson family taken in front of their home in the 1890s. The collection includes ten group
photographs of various African American masonic groups in California in the 1930-1950s.
Arrangement
Series I. Photographs
Series II. Dicy Robinson memorial card
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Hill, Ida.
Hill family.
African American--Families.
African American freemasonry--California--History.
African American freemasons--California--History.