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A. Philip Randolph portrait collection

Title: A. Philip Randolph portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1920?-1979?>

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Request Appointment 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 Randolph, A. Philip	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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66 items (.2 cu. ft., 1 box); 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
<6> photomechanical prints : b&w ;
<33> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
<26> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
<1> photographic postcard : gelatin silver, b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph. Collection consists of studio portraits of Randolph; views of Randolph attending dinners and public functions, and participating in labor and political activities; and in group portraits with various public officials and union leaders. Of note are group portraits of Randolph with C. L. Dellums, Thomas Patterson, Ashley Totten, and other early leaders of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (ca. 1925); and Randolph, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., National Urban League leader Lester Granger and NAACP leader Roy Wilkins, meeting President Dwight D. Eisenhower at the White House (1958). Among those depicted with Randolph include Arthur Spingarn, Will Rogers, Jr., Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Arthur Goldberg, and Hubert T. Delaney. Also included are a studio portrait of Randolph's wife, Lucille Green Randolph; Lucille in a group portrait with others attending the Howard Alumni formal, in New York (1952); and view of a bust of Randolph. Full, half and quarter length portraits are included.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1920-1979.
Group portraits – 1920-1979.
Photomechanical prints – 1960-1979.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1920-1979.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include James C. Campbell, R. D. Jones, Cecil Layne, and others.
Some photographs bear photographer's or photography studio's handstamp on verso. Some items bear printed captions on recto; some items bear handwritten captions on verso or recto; some items bear printed captions attached to verso.

Terms of Use (note)

Some photographs may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Randolph, A. Philip

OCLC

NYPG087000390-F

Title

A. Philip Randolph portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1920?-1979?>

Terms Of Use

Some photographs may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Archer, Alexander. Photographer

Layne, Cecil. Photographer

Jones, R. D. Photographer

Campbell, James. Photographer

Nichols, -1991. Photographer

Pries, Ethel. Photographer

Sheffield, Maceo B. Photographer

A. Hansen Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Blackstone-Shelburne (New York, N.Y.)

Camera Arts Studio (New York, N.Y.)

E. F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)

Shelburne Studios (New York, N.Y.)

United Press International.

Wide World Photos.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Randolph, A. Philip

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