Collection Guide
Brief record only
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
[Portrait photographs of African American families from Oakland and other California locations].
Collection Number:
No online items
Collection Overview
Title:
[Portrait photographs of African American families from Oakland and other California locations]Abstract:
Professional studio portrait photographs of African Americans representing multiple families of Oakland and other locations
in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere in California, taken in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Identified families
include Stephens, Johnson, Jackson, and Logan. Also includes a small number of group photographs, snapshots, views of family
residences and businesses, postcards and miscellaneous papers. Also includes a copy of a 1921 issue of Ivy Leaf, a publication
of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.
Date:
1890 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caAfrican Americans -- California -- Oakland -- Portraits
African Americans -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Portraits
African American families -- California -- Photographs
Noirs américains -- Californie -- Oakland -- Portraits
Noirs américains -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Portraits
Familles noires américaines -- Californie -- Photographies
African American families
African Americans
California
California -- Oakland
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Note:
Title devised by cataloger.
Numerous photographers.
Most prints mounted.
Purchase from Barney Chapmen ; 2022.
Portrait photographs of African American families from Oakland and other California locations, BANC PIC 2023.027, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
graphicportraits.
postcards.
Photographs
Portraits
Postcards
Portraits.
Postcards.
Portraits.
Cartes postales.
Physical Description:
photoprint
approximately 100 photographs in 2 boxes and 1 folder : chiefly gelatin silver prints ; sheets various sizes
Language:
English