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Julian Mayfield photograph collection

Title: Julian Mayfield photograph collection [graphic].
Author: Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984.
Publication: 1929-1978.

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Request Appointment 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 Julian Mayfield Collection box 1	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
Request Appointment 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 Julian Mayfield Collection box 2	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
Request Appointment 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 Julian Mayfield Collection box 3	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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p1tc Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984. Julian Mayfield papers, 1949-1984 (CstRLIN)NYPW89-A147

Description

1042 items (1.2 lin. ft., 3 boxes); 36 x 24 cm. and smaller.
425 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-col. ;
337 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
26 contact sheets : silver gelatin, b&w ;
219 photographic prints : col. ;
21 dye diffusion transfer prints : col. ;
1 polaroid : b&w ;
7 photomechanical prints : halftone, b&w, some col. ;
1 photographic postcard : b&w ;
1 postcard : col. ;
1 invitation : halftone, b&w, text ;
3 negatives : b&w ;

Summary

The Julian Mayfield Photograph Collection depicts some aspects of his personal life and his professional career as a writer, actor and political aide, from the period of the late 1920s to the 1970s.

Alternative Title

City of kings.
Kongi's harvest (Motion picture : 1970)
The long night (Motion picture : 1976)
Uptight (Motion picture : 1968)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1920-1979.
Group portraits – 1930-1979.
Snapshots – 1920-1979.
Film stills – 1960-1979.
Publicity photographs – 1940-1969.
Photographic postcards.
Postcards.
Scrapbooks – 1920-1969.
Gelatin silver prints – 1920-1979.
Dye coupler prints – 1950-1979.
Dye diffusion transfer prints – 1960-1979.
Halftone photomechanical prints.
Hand coloring.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Some items have photographer's or photography studio's handstamp; many photographs have either handwritten or typewritten notations on verso; some photographs have either handwritten, typewritten or printed captions on recto; one item has cropping marks; some images are duplicates.
Many snapshots are attached to scrapbook pages; some pages are still bound, but most are loose; some pages bear handwritten captions. Some images bear inscriptions or autographs; some images have water damage.
Collection contains work by Frank Dandridge, Jimmie Mannas, Robert H. McNeill, Willis Perry II, and Alice Windom, among others.

Biography (note)

Julian Hudson Mayfield (1928-1984) was an author, playwright, actor, educator and political activist.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Julian Mayfield Papers, 1949-1984.

Call Number

Sc Photo Julian Mayfield Collection

OCLC

NYPG99-F370

Author

Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984.

Title

Julian Mayfield photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

1929-1978.

Biography

Julian Hudson Mayfield (1928-1984) was an author, playwright, actor, educator and political activist. His theatrical work includes writing the plays "Fire" (1949) and "417" (1955); directing and producing Ossie Davis's "Alice in Wonder" (1952); and making his Broadway acting debut as Absalom in the musical "Lost in the Stars" (1949). He also wrote the screenplay and starred in the film "Uptight" (1968) and wrote the 1976 screenplay of his novel "The Long Night." His literary works include the novels "The Hit" (1957), "The Long Night" (1958) and "The Grand Parade" (1961); he wrote numerous articles for leftist and black nationalist publications; and he founded the African Review in the early 1960s. Mayfield served as a political aide to President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1962-1966) and Prime Minister Forbes Burnham of Guyana (1971-1974). He received fellowships at Cornell University and New York University (1967-1971), and a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship (1976-1977); lectured at the University of Maryland, College Park (1974-1978); and spent his final years (1978-1984) as writer-in-residence and associate professor at Howard University, in Washington, D.C.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Julian Mayfield Papers, 1949-1984.

Local Note

Sc MG 339

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Dandridge, Frank. Photographer

Mannas, Jimmie. Photographer

McNeill, Robert H. Photographer

Perry, Willis. Photographer

Windom, Alice. Photographer

Fotos Torres (Ibiza, Spain)

Paramount Pictures Corporation.

Marlukin Productions.

Added Title

City of kings.

Kongi's harvest (Motion picture : 1970)

The long night (Motion picture : 1976)

Uptight (Motion picture : 1968)

Found In:

p1tc Mayfield, Julian, 1928-1984. Julian Mayfield papers, 1949-1984 (CstRLIN)NYPW89-A147

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Julian Mayfield Collection

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