Title:

[Jacqueline Gibson photograph album of her African American milieu in Tacoma, Washington]

Creator/Contributor:

Gibson, Jacqueline, creator, creator.

Snapshot photograph album documenting the youth and young adulthood of Jacqueline "Jac" Gibson of Tacoma, Washington, particularly her family and home life, social and leisure activities, local outings and broader travels in the Northwestern U.S. Images reflect Gibson's mixed-race family and primarily African American social milieu, the bulk taken during her years at Stadium High School and the University of Puget Sound. A few images depict her childhood family life and scenes from William Cullen Bryant Elementary School . Many photographs were taken in Tacoma; other locations include Spokane; Yakima; Seattle; Portland, Oregon; Yellowstone National Park; and Mount Rainier. Some images depict African American men in military uniforms. Others depict Jac's sorority sisters of the Kappa Omega chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha during a cruise in 1946. A few images depict Jac's brother Bob Gibson. Numerous other individuals are pictured, nearly all of them identified by their full names in captions.

Date:

1941 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-wa

Gibson, Jacqueline -- Photographs

African Americans -- Washington (State) -- Tacoma -- Photographs

African American families -- Washington (State) -- Tacoma -- Photographs

Leisure -- Washington (State) -- Photographs

Tacoma (Wash.) -- Photographs

Title devised by cataloger.

Compiled by Jacqueline Gibson; numerous photographers.

Prints and leaves comprehensively annotated throughout.

Five detached photographs shelved separately in folder.

Jacqueline Gibson photograph album of her African American milieu in Tacoma, Washington, BANC PIC 2022.128, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Purchase from Langon Manor Books, LLC ; 2022.

Per bookseller's research, Jacqueline D. Gibson (born ca. 1926) attended Stadium High School in Tacoma, and while attending the University of Puget Sound helped to establish the Pascuales, a group affiliated with the Tacoma YWCA that promoted interracial understanding. Jacqueline's brother Bob Gibson was the first African American to earn a pharmacy degree at the University of California, San Francisco, and served as president of the American Pharmacists Association and the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy.

Type:

graphic

Photograph albums.

photoprint

approximately 215 photographs in 1 album and 1 folder : gelatin silver prints adhered to album leaves ; prints various sizes, album 19 x 29 cm

English

Origin:

California