Research Catalog
Ka Morais papers
- Title
- Ka Morais papers, 1942-1981 (bulk 1970-1981).
- Author
- Morais, Ka, 1942-1981.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 493 box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 493 box 2 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 3 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 493 box 3 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984.
- Description
- 1.2 lin. ft. (3 archival boxes)
- Summary
- The Ka Morais Papers include family, personal, and professional correspondence. Letters from his brother Michael discuss their collaborations, writing and illustrating poems and other works. Morais' professional papers consist of letters of recommendation, honors and awards, programs and reviews of his exhibits, drawings, and news clippings about him and advertising courses he taught. There are also a few manuscripts by Morais with illustrations (photographs and drawings). Of interest are original and photocopies of letters and postcards written to him by the photographer Ansel Adams, 1975-1981.
- Also documented is Morais' involvement in the Bahai religion, his period as an English instructor in Japan (Ube Academy of Foreign Languages), and as a volunteer worker at the United Nations refugee camps in Thailand, 1978-1981.
- Subjects
- African American authors > New York (State) > New York
- African American families > New York (State) > New York
- Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984
- Morais, Ka, 1942-1981
- Illustrations
- African American photographers > New York (State) > New York
- African American Bahais
- Photographers > United States
- Black author
- Sketchbooks
- Genre/Form
- Sketchbooks.
- Illustrations.
- Note
- Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
- Art transferred to Art and Artifact Division.
- Audiotapes and films transferred to Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.
- Source (note)
- Michael Morais
- Biography (note)
- Kenneth Alan (Ka) Morais, African-American photographer and media artist, studied commercial and fine art, photography and film and television in New York and California. Morais' fine art photography includes constructions and photomontages; his documentary work includes images of New York City and abroad.
- Call Number
- Sc MG 493
- OCLC
- 700073617
- Author
- Morais, Ka, 1942-1981.
- Title
- Ka Morais papers, 1942-1981 (bulk 1970-1981).
- Biography
- Kenneth Alan (Ka) Morais, African-American photographer and media artist, studied commercial and fine art, photography and film and television in New York and California. Morais' fine art photography includes constructions and photomontages; his documentary work includes images of New York City and abroad.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 493