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Title:

[Clarence Thomas Simpson family photograph collection]

Creator/Contributor:

Simpson, Clarence Thomas, creator, creator

Abstract:

Studio portraits and snapshots pertaining to Clarence Thomas Simpson -- a middle-class African American man of Kansas City, Missouri and, later, Los Angeles, California -- and multiple generations of his family. Portraits depict Clarence, his mother Eliza, his sisters Siddonia and Josephine, and his cousin the Reverend A.L. Kimborough of St. Paul, Minnesota, among others. Snapshots chiefly depict various family members during leisure outings, travels, or posing in various domestic situations. Also includes miscellaneous correspondence, most written to Clarence; an invitation to Siddonia's graduation ceremony of Lincoln High School in Kansas City; and miscellaneous cancelled checks written by Charles in the 1920s. Negatives are snapshots that do not duplicate images found in prints, but that contain similar subject matter.

Date:

1895 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca -- n-us-mo
African Americans -- California -- Photographs
African Americans -- Missouri -- Photographs
African Americans -- Portraits
African American families -- Photographs
Simpson, Clarence Thomas -- Photographs

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Collected by Clarence Thomas Simpson.
Includes portraits by several studio photographers, most based in Kansas City, Missouri.
NITRATE NEGATIVES (NNEG box): CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.
Purchase from Langdon Manor Books, LLC ; 2023.
Clarence Thomas Simpson family photograph collection, BANC PIC 2024.032, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

graphic
Portraits.
Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

photonegative
photoprint
approximately 170 photographs in 2 boxes : chiefly gelatin silver prints and nitrate film negatives ; sheets various sizes

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

NITRATE NEGATIVES (NNEG box): CLOSED TO RESEARCH DUE TO HAZARDOUS MATERIALS RESTRICTIONS.