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Booker T. Washington portrait collection

Title: Booker T. Washington portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1890?-1989?>

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Washington, Booker T.	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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<1> photomechanical print : col.; 14 x 9 cm.
<8> photomechanical prints : b&w ;
<6> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
<10> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of educator, African-American leader and founder of Tuskegee Institute, Booker T. Washington. Collection consists mainly of individual portraits of Washington, including views of the statue erected at Tuskegee and the bust at New York University Hall of Fame. Washington is in a couple of group portraits with Andrew Carnegie, Charles W. Eliot, Robert C. Ogden, Lyman Abbott, H.B. Trissell, J. G. Phelps Stokes, and Margaret Murray Washington. Also views of a stamp honoring Washington, a caricature and a presentation at the U.S. Mint of the Booker T. Washington memorial half dollar. Full, half and quarter length portraits are included.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Postcards – 1950-1969.
Portraits – 1880-1969.
Portrait photographs – 1880-1919.
Group portraits – 1900-1949.
Albumen photoprints – 1900-1909.
Photomechanical prints – 1890-1969.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1920-1989.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include Gertrude Krasebier, Underwood & Underwood and others.
Some photographs are duplicates; some have captions; one image bears autograph; some are cropped.

Terms of Use (note)

Some photographs are restricted; permission of the photographer required for duplication.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Washington, Booker T.

OCLC

NYPG087000087-F

Title

Booker T. Washington portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1890?-1989?>

Terms Of Use

Some photographs are restricted; permission of the photographer required for duplication.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Krasebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934. Photographer

Alabama Postcard Company.

Associated Publishers.

Underwood & Underwood.

Johnson Publishing Company.

Howard S. Waltman Company.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Washington, Booker T.

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