Research Catalog

Title

Lafargue Clinic photograph collection [graphic].

Author

Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)

Publication

1946?-1958?

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Larsen, Lisa, 1925-1959.
• Saunders, Richard, 1922-1987.
• Black Star (Picture agency)
• Graphic House (New York, N.Y.)

Found In

(CstRLIN) NYPW89-A135

Description

• 30 items (.3 cu. ft., 1 box); 35 x 28 cm. or smaller.
• 30 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Collection mainly depicts the patients, staff, clinic sessions and activities at the Lafargue Clinic, that was located in the basement of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1940s through the 1950s. The collection consists of individual portraits of clinic director Fredric Wertham and Dr. Hilde L. Mosse; group portraits of Wertham with others, including St. Philip's rector Shelton Hale Bishop; individual portraits of young patients; and views, that sometimes include Wertham, Mosse or Bishop, of staff meetings, individual and group interviews with young patients, observation of children playing with blocks, children checking out books from the clinic library, children playing with puppets, and a child writing. Also depicted are an outdoor staff party; a group of children standing beside an outdoor Christmas tree; and Wertham examining a rack of comic books bearing sensational titles.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Interviewing in psychiatry
• Group portraits > 1940-1959
• Portrait photographs > 1940-1959
• Bishop, Shelton Hale, 1889-1962
• African American children > Services for > New York (State) > New York
• Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
• Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.) Employees
• African Americans > Health and welfare > 1940-1959
• Meetings > New York (State) > New York > 1940-1959
• Community mental health services > New York (State) > New York
• Silver gelatin photoprints > 1940-1959
• Mosse, Hilda L
• Psychiatric clinics > New York (State) > New York
• Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981

Genre/Form

• Group portraits – 1940-1959.
• Portrait photographs – 1940-1959.
• Silver gelatin photoprints – 1940-1959.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs bear photographer's handstamp on verso. Some items bear handwritten captions on verso; some items bear inscriptions on recto. One item is mounted. Some items are duplicates.
• Collection contains work by Lisa Larsen and Richard Saunders.

Terms of Use (note)

• Some items are restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

• Low cost psychiatric clinic established in 1946 in Harlem.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Lafargue Clinic Records.

Call Number

Sc Photo Lafargue Clinic Collection

OCLC

NYPG087000345-F

Author

Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)

Title

Lafargue Clinic photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

1946?-1958?

Terms Of Use

Some items are restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Lafargue Clinic Records.

Biography

Low cost psychiatric clinic established in 1946 in Harlem.

Local Note

SC MG 141.

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Added Author

Larsen, Lisa, 1925-1959. Photographer

Saunders, Richard, 1922-1987. Photographer

Black Star (Picture agency)

Graphic House (New York, N.Y.)

Found In:

(CstRLIN) NYPW89-A135

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Lafargue Clinic Collection