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Alex Haley portrait collection

Title
  1. Alex Haley portrait collection [graphic].
Published by
  1. <1965?-1980?>

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FormatStill imageAccessUse in libraryCall numberSc Photo Haley, AlexItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Additional authors
  1. Malone, Kirsten.
  2. WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
  3. Siringo Studio (Rome, N.Y.)
Description
  1. <10> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm.
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
Subject
  1. Haley, Alex
  2. Group portraits > 1960-1979
  3. Angelou, Maya
  4. African American authors
  5. Brown, Tony, M.P.S.W
  6. Haley, Alex > Roots
  7. Silver gelatin photoprints > 1960-1979
  8. Photoprints > Color
  9. Publicity photographs > 1960-1979
  10. Portrait photographs > 1960-1979
  11. Television > Production and direction > United States
  12. Television > United States > Production and direction
  13. Burton, LeVar
Genre/Form
  1. Publicity photographs – 1960-1979.
  2. Portrait photographs – 1960-1979.
  3. Group portraits – 1960-1979.
  4. Silver gelatin photoprints – 1960-1979.
  5. Photoprints – Color.
Call number
  1. Sc Photo Haley, Alex
Note
  1. Title devised by cataloger.
  2. Some photos have written descriptive information or captions; some are duplicates.
  3. Photographers include Kirsten Malone, Siringo Studio and WNET.
Linking entry (note)
  1. Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
Title
  1. Alex Haley portrait collection [graphic].
Imprint
  1. <1965?-1980?>
Linking entry
  1. Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
Local note
  1. Negatives available for some images.
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Added author
  1. Malone, Kirsten. Photographer
  2. WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
  3. Siringo Studio (Rome, N.Y.)
Research call number
  1. Sc Photo Haley, Alex
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