Research Catalog
Alex Haley portrait collection
- Title
- Alex Haley portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1965?-1980?>
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| Status | 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. | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Haley, Alex | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- <10> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm.
- <4> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- <1> photoprint : col. ;
- Summary
- Views of author Alex Haley taken approximately between 1965 and 1980. Includes studio portraits (some promotional stills) and group portraits. Group portraits show Haley on Tony Brown's Journal, during a visit to Denmark, with artists Jon Qulam and Mahmed Raanza (sp?), behind a camera filming roots, with Maya Angelou and Levar Burton on the set of Roots, standing near a road marker at his boyhood home in Tennessee with Gambian North American Tourism director Samba M.B. Fye and in Gambia with African relatives. Half and full-length views are included.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Haley, Alex
- Group portraits > 1960-1979
- Angelou, Maya
- African American authors
- Brown, Tony, M.P.S.W
- Haley, Alex > Roots
- Silver gelatin photoprints > 1960-1979
- Photoprints > Color
- Publicity photographs > 1960-1979
- Portrait photographs > 1960-1979
- Television > Production and direction > United States
- Television > United States > Production and direction
- Burton, LeVar
- Genre/Form
- Publicity photographs – 1960-1979.
- Portrait photographs – 1960-1979.
- Group portraits – 1960-1979.
- Silver gelatin photoprints – 1960-1979.
- Photoprints – Color.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Some photos have written descriptive information or captions; some are duplicates.
- Photographers include Kirsten Malone, Siringo Studio and WNET.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Haley, Alex
- OCLC
- NYPG085000525-F
- Title
- Alex Haley portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- <1965?-1980?>
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Local Note
- Negatives available for some images.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Malone, Kirsten. PhotographerWNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)Siringo Studio (Rome, N.Y.)
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Haley, Alex