Title

Hiram Revels photograph collection [graphic].

Author

Revels, Hiram R. (Hiram Rhoades), 1827?-1901.

Publication

1850-1910.

Items in the Library & Offsite

Details

Additional Authors

• Davis Premium Gallery.
• Doremus' Floating Photographic Gallery.

Found In

p1bc Revels, Hiram Collection (CstRLIN)NYPW088000023-A.

Description

• 4 items (1 folder); 15 x 21 cm. and smaller.
• 2 photographic prints : gelatin silver, one albumen, b&w ;
• 2 card photographs : albumen ;

Subjects

• Cabinet photographs > 1850-1919
• African American college administrators > Mississippi
• Albumen prints > 1870-1909
• College facilities > Mississippi
• African American legislators > Mississippi
• Alcorn College
• African American families > Mississippi
• Cayton, Suzie Revels, 1870-1943
• Portrait photographs > 1850-1919
• African American clergy
• Revels, Hiram R (Hiram Rhoades), 1827?-1901
• Cartes de visite > 1850-1919
• African Americans > Clothing and dress > 1860-1879
• Gelatin silver prints > 1850-1919
• Group portraits > 1850-1919

Genre/Form

• Group portraits – 1850-1919.
• Portrait photographs – 1850-1919.
• Cabinet photographs – 1850-1919.
• Cartes de visite – 1850-1919.
• Albumen prints – 1870-1909.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1850-1919.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Collection contains work by Davis Premium Gallery and Doremus' Floating Photographic Gallery.
• View of Alcorn College part of Doremus' Mississippi Views series.

Biography (note)

• Hiram Rhoades Revels, clergyman, politician, and college president, was the first African American to serve on the United States Senate.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Hiram Revels Collection, 1870-1948.

Call Number

Sc Photo Hiram Revels Collection

Author

Revels, Hiram R. (Hiram Rhoades), 1827?-1901.

Title

Hiram Revels photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

1850-1910.

Summary

The Hiram Revels Photograph Collection consists of a group portrait of Revels and his family; a studio portrait of Revels's wife, Phoebe; a studio portrait of Maggie Revels (probably one of Revels's daughters); and a view of the Oakland Chapel and nearby buildings at Alcorn College, Claiborne County, Mississippi.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Hiram Revels Collection, 1870-1948.

Biography

Hiram Rhoades Revels, clergyman, politician, and college president, was the first African American to serve on the United States Senate. After serving as a church pastor before the Civil War, and helping to organize black military regiments during the war, Revels briefly served in Mississippi local and state politics, from 1868-1870, before he was elected, in 1870, by the state legislature to the U.S. Senate to complete the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis. In 1871, he became the first president of Alcorn College, a black school in Claiborne County, Mississippi, serving from 1871-1873, and again from 1876-1882. Revels and his wife, Pheobe, had six daughters including Suzie, who later married journalist Horace Roscoe Cayton.

Local Note

SCM 77-76

Connect to:

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Added Author

Davis Premium Gallery.

Doremus' Floating Photographic Gallery.

Found In:

p1bc Revels, Hiram Collection (CstRLIN)NYPW088000023-A.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Hiram Revels Collection