Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Cordes, Paul.
2. Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953.
3. Waring, Laura.
4. Neel, Alice, 1900-1984.
5. Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000.
6. Adams, John Henry.
7. Morgan State College.
8. Pundy (Boston, Mass.)

Description

1. <60> items (.3 cu. ft., 1 box); 29 x 27 cm. or smaller.

Summary

1. Portraits of scholar, author, editor and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois. Collection consists of many individual portraits and drawings of Du Bois at all ages, including him as a child. Family portraits include his father as a Union soldier, his mother and possibly other siblings, his childhood home in Great Barrington, Mass., Du Bois' wife, Nina and baby daughter, and his daughter; Nina Yolande's wedding with Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Frederick Cullen, Melville Charlton, Arna Bontemps, and W. Alphaeus Hinton. Several views show Du Bois in his office at "The Crisis." Among the group portraits are views of his high school and college (Fisk) graduating classes, members of the Niagra Movement, a 1918 meeting in Washington, D.C., committee on the Encyclopedia of the Negro, Civil Rights Congress, and his senatorial campaign. Some of the individuals pictured with Du Bois are Jesse Bingo, Col. Dennison, Wilberforce Williams, Carlton Moss, Arthur Schomburg, E. Kinckle Jones, Mordecai Johnson, Joel Spingarn, C. Wesley, Arnold Hill and Mary McLeod Bethune. There is also a picture of the first edition cover of "The Crisis." Quarter, half and full length images are available.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

1. Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
2. Hill, Arnold
3. Photomechanical prints
4. Williams, Wilberforce
5. Silver gelatin photoprints
6. Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973
7. Moss, Carleton
8. Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955
9. Jones, Eugene K., 1885-1954
10. Portrait photographs > 1860-1969
11. African American leadership
12. Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
13. Weddings > New York (State) > Harlem
14. Du Bois, Alfred
15. Williams, Nina Yolande Du Bois
16. Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938
17. Du Bois, Mary Burghardt
18. Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 > Homes and haunts
19. Hinton, W. Alphaeus
20. Group portraits > 1860-1969
21. Cullen, Frederick A
22. Du Bois, W. E. B (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 > Caricatures and cartoons
23. African American sociologists
24. Du Bois, Nina Gomer
25. Meetings
26. Public speaking > United States
27. Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946
28. Crisis (New York, N.Y.)
29. Bingo, Jesse
30. Johnson, Mordecai W
31. Spingarn, Joel Elias, 1875-1939
32. African American scholars
33. Editors > United States
34. Portraits
35. Wesley, Charles H (Charles Harris), 1891-1987
36. Charlton, Melville
37. African American authors

Genre/Form

1. Group portraits – 1860-1969.
2. Portrait photographs – 1860-1969.
3. Portraits.
4. Photomechanical prints.
5. Silver gelatin photoprints.

Call number

1. Sc Photo Du Bois, W.E.B.

Note

1. Title devised by cataloger.
2. Some photographs have captions; some are duplicates; some photographs are cropped; some have airbrush marks; some photographs have written descriptive information.
3. Photographers include Paul Cordes, Pundy and others.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Title

1. W.E.B. DuBois portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

1. <1867?-1989?>

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local note

1. Negatives exist for some images.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request Appointment

Added author

1. Cordes, Paul. Photographer
2. Reiss, Winold, 1886-1953.
3. Waring, Laura.
4. Neel, Alice, 1900-1984.
5. Baskin, Leonard, 1922-2000.
6. Adams, John Henry.
7. Morgan State College.
8. Pundy (Boston, Mass.)

Research call number

1. Sc Photo Du Bois, W.E.B.