Research Catalog
Kwame Nkrumah portrait collection
- Title
- Kwame Nkrumah portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1957?-1972?>
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 Nkrumah, Kwame | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Description
- <8> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.
- <6> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- <1> photomechanical print : b&w ;
- Summary
- Portraits of Ghana president and author Kwame Nkrumah. Collection includes views of Nkrumah speaking at the U.N., celebrating in front of Parliament House as Ghana became independent, touring Harlem and receiving flowers, honoring Mahatma Ghandi's grave, broadcasting a speech, with Rose Morgan and meeting Obafemi Awolowo. Full and half length portraits are included.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Authors, Black
- Authors, Ghanaian
- Awolowo, Obafemi, 1909-1987
- Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972
- Photomechanical prints > 1970-1979
- Group portraits > 1950-1969
- Morgan, Rose, 1912?-2008
- Radio broadcasting > Ghana > 1950-1959
- Portrait photographs > 1930-1969
- Silver gelatin photoprints > 1950-1969
- Presidents > Ghana
- Public speaking > 1960-1969
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 1930-1969.
- Group portraits – 1950-1969.
- Photomechanical prints – 1970-1979.
- Silver gelatin photoprints – 1950-1969.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Photographers include Cecil Layne, United Press International, Wide World Photos and others.
- Some photographs have captions; some have airbrush marks.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Nkrumah, Kwame
- OCLC
- NYPG085000804-F
- Title
- Kwame Nkrumah portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- <1957?-1972?>
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Local Note
- Negatives exist for some images.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Layne, Cecil. PhotographerUnited Press International.Wide World Photos.United Nations.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Nkrumah, Kwame