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Inventors and inventions

Title: Inventors and inventions [graphic].
Publication: [1925]-[1986?]

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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 Inventors and inventions	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Additional Authors

Gray, Oliver J.

Description

30 items (.3 cu. ft., 1 box); 34 x 23 cm. and smaller.
15 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
6 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
7 photostats : b&w ;
1 dye diffusion transfer print : col. ;
1 photocopy : b&w ;

Summary

The collection consists of portraits of African American inventors from the 19th and 20th centuries, some of whom are depicted with their inventions; and depictions of individual inventions, including patent drawings, mostly created during the 19th to mid-20th centuries.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Gelatin silver prints – 1920-1989.
Mechanical drawings – Reproductions.
Patent drawings – Reproductions.
Portrait photographs.
Stats.
Dye diffusion transfer prints – 1980-1989.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Some photographs bear organizational handstamp on verso. Some items bear handwritten notations on verso; many items bear captions or descriptive text printed on recto; one item bears typewritten caption attached to verso. Some items are mounted; some items are matted.
Collection contains work by Oliver J. Gray.

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