Research Catalog
Civil Rights Congress photograph collection
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress photograph collection [graphic].
- Author
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
- Publication
- 1935?-1955?
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Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Civil Rights Congress Collection box 1 | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 2 | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Civil Rights Congress Collection box 2 | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 3 | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Civil Rights Congress Collection box 3 | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 4 | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Civil Rights Congress Collection box 4 | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Details
- Found In
- (CstRLIN)NYPW89-A62
- Description
- 490 items (.7 cu. ft., 4 boxes); 29 x 22 cm. or smaller.
- 4 broadsides ;
- 4 drawings : b&w ;
- 1 photoprint : col. ;
- 17 photomechanical prints : b&w ;
- 464 photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- Summary
- Photographs recording the activities, causes and individuals connected with the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) during the period of its existence, 1946-1955 as well as a few posters, fact sheets and photo album.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Civil rights demonstrations > United States
- Political activists > United States
- Photomechanical prints > 1940-1959
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
- Group portraits > 1940-1959
- Meetings > United States > 1940-1959
- Portrait photographs > 1940-1959
- Davis, Benjamin J (Benjamin Jefferson), 1903-1964
- Photograph albums > 1950-1959
- Civil rights > United States > Societies, etc
- Silver gelatin photoprints > 1930-1959
- Contact sheets > 1940-1959
- Communists > United States
- Snapshots > 1940-1959
- Posters > 1950-1959
- Patterson, William L (William Lorenzo), 1890-1980
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
- Audiences > United States > 1940-1959
- Public speaking > United States > 1940-1959
- Postcards > 1940-1959
- Genre/Form
- Photograph albums – 1950-1959.
- Posters – 1950-1959.
- Snapshots – 1940-1959.
- Portrait photographs – 1940-1959.
- Group portraits – 1940-1959.
- Postcards – 1940-1959.
- Contact sheets – 1940-1959.
- Photomechanical prints – 1940-1959.
- Silver gelatin photoprints – 1930-1959.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Some photographs are duplicates; some bear written descriptive information.
- Biography (note)
- National organization established in 1946 to among other things, "combat all forms of discrimination against ... labor, the Negro people and the Jewish people, and racial, political, religious, and national minorities." The organization folded in 1955 under pressure from the United States Attorney General and the House Un-American Activities Committee, which accused the organization of being subversive.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Civil Rights Congress Records.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Civil Rights Congress Collection
- OCLC
- NYPG087000330-F
- Author
- Civil Rights Congress (U.S.)
- Title
- Civil Rights Congress photograph collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- 1935?-1955?
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Civil Rights Congress Records.
- Biography
- National organization established in 1946 to among other things, "combat all forms of discrimination against ... labor, the Negro people and the Jewish people, and racial, political, religious, and national minorities." The organization folded in 1955 under pressure from the United States Attorney General and the House Un-American Activities Committee, which accused the organization of being subversive.
- Local Note
- SC MG7.
- Connect to:
- Found In:
- (CstRLIN)NYPW89-A62
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Civil Rights Congress Collection