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Amy Ashwood Garvey portrait collection

Title
Amy Ashwood Garvey portrait collection [graphic].
Publication
<197-?>

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Still imageUse in library Sc Photo Garvey, Amy AshwoodSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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  • <3> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm.
  • <9> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
Summary
Views of Amy Ashwood Garvey, first wife of Black Nationalist Marcus Garvey. The time period depicted in the collection ranges approximately between the early 1900's and the late 1960's. The collection includes portraits of Amy Garvey alone; also in group portraits with unidentified people. Some groups portraits look like family portraits; some are portraits of African people in native dress. Also included is a shot of Amy Garvey with two unidentified women on the steps of the Afro Women's Centre and in a group portrait with the Jamaica United Party, taken sometime in the 1960's.
Donor/Sponsor
Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Group portraits – 1920-1979.
  • Portrait photographs – 1920-1979.
  • Silver gelatin photoprints – 1970-1979.
Note
  • Title devised by cataloger.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
Call Number
Sc Photo Garvey, Amy Ashwood
OCLC
NYPG085000743-F
Title
Amy Ashwood Garvey portrait collection [graphic].
Imprint
<197-?>
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
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Sc Photo Garvey, Amy Ashwood
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