Research Catalog
Austin Hansen collection
- Title
- Austin Hansen collection [graphic] / A. Hansen.
- Author
- Hansen, Austin, 1910-1996
- Publication
- [193-]-1989.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding aid
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Status | Container | 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. | box 54 | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 54 | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 55 | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 55 | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 56 | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 56 | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 57 | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 57 | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | box 58 | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 58 | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
box 59 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 59 | Offsite | |
box 60 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 60 | Offsite | |
box 61 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 61 | Offsite | |
box 62 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 62 | Offsite | |
box 63 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 63 | Offsite | |
box 64 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 64 | Offsite | |
box 65 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 65 | Offsite | |
box 66 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 66 | Offsite | |
box 67 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 67 | Offsite | |
box 68 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 68 | Offsite | |
box 69 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 69 | Offsite | |
box 70 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 70 | Offsite | |
box 71 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 71 | Offsite | |
box 72 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 72 | Offsite | |
box 73 | Still image | Request in advance | Sc Photo Hansen (Churches) box 73 | Offsite |
Details
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- Description
- ca. 530,484 items (124.2 lin. ft., 262 boxes); 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.
- ca. 21,679 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-colored ;
- ca. 3038 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- ca. 460 photographic prints : col. ;
- ca. 4514 photographic prints : col. ;
- ca. 529 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-colored ;
- ca. 225 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-colored ;
- ca. 39 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- ca. 500,000 negatives : b&w, some col. ;
- Summary
- The Austin Hansen Collection primarily documents the people, places, and events in Harlem during the period from approximately the 1930s to the late 1980s.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources Access Project.
- Subjects
- Group portraits > 1930-1989
- Fashion photographs > 1930-1989
- St. Martin's Church (New York, N.Y.)
- Funeral rites & ceremonies > New York (N.Y.)
- Cityscape photographs > 1930-1989
- Churches > New York (N.Y.)
- National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs > New York Club
- Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
- Manners and customs > Awards
- Photographic prints > 1930-1989
- Cotillions
- Tobias, Channing H
- African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church New York (State) > New York
- African American business enterprises > New York (State) > New York
- African-American Day Parade
- Dye coupler prints > 1940-1989
- African Americans in the performing arts
- Louis, Joe, 1914-1981
- Parades & processions > New York (State) > New York > 1940-1989
- Fraternal organizations > New York (N.Y.)
- Order of the Eastern Star
- Clubs > New York (State) > New York
- Hand coloring
- Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908-1972
- Fashion models > New York (N.Y.)
- African American churches > New York (State) > New York
- African American clergy
- Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955
- Poor People's Campaign
- Fashion > New York (State) > New York
- Photojournalism > New York (N.Y.) > 1930-1989
- St. Philip's Church (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
- Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Inc. (Prince Hall Affiliated)
- Buildings > New York (State) > New York
- Bryant, Willie, 1908-1964
- Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.)
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
- African Americans > Clothing & dress > 1930-1989
- African Americans > Social life and customs
- Powell, A. Clayton (Adam Clayton), 1865-1953
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Religion
- Politics and government > New York (N.Y.) > 1930-1989
- Robinson, Jackie, 1919-1972
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- African American photographers
- Freemasons > Prince Hall Grand Lodge (N.Y.)
- World War, 1939-1945 > African Americans
- Scottish Rite (Masonic order)
- United States > Navy > African Americans
- African Americans > Religious life
- Lee, Canada
- Etiquette > Awards
- Weddings > New York (State) > New York > 1940-1989
- Gelatin silver prints > 1930-1989
- Young Men's Christian Association (New York, N.Y.) > Harlem Branch
- African American politicians
- Beauty culture > New York (State) > New York
- African American musicians
- Portrait photographs > 1930-1989
- Jack, Hulan E
- Rites and ceremonies > Awards
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Societies, etc
- King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
- African Methodist Episcopal Church New York (State) > New York
- New York (N.Y.) > Police Department
- Daughters of Improved, Benevolent, Protective Order of Elks of the World
- Abyssinian Baptist Church (New York, N.Y.)
- Panoramic photographs > 1940-1989
- Legal photographs > 1930-1989
- African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Political activity
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 1930-1989.
- Group portraits – 1930-1989.
- Cityscape photographs – 1930-1989.
- Legal photographs – 1930-1989.
- Fashion photographs – 1930-1989.
- Photographic prints – 1930-1989.
- Gelatin silver prints – 1930-1989.
- Dye coupler prints – 1940-1989.
- Panoramic photographs – 1940-1989.
- Hand coloring.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Many items have photographer's handstamp on verso; some items have studio blindstamp on recto.
- Some photographs have captions on verso or recto.
- Some photographs are airbrushed; some are cropped; some have cropping marks.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Photo negatives are closed to research.
- Biography (note)
- Austin Hansen, known primarily as a Harlem studio photographer, has had a career in photography that spans nearly seventy years, from the mid-1920s to the present.
- Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
- Finding aid
- Publications (note)
- Hansen's Harlem. New York : New York Public Library, 1989.
- Exhibitions (note)
- Exhibited: "Hansen's Harlem," an exhibition at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1989.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Austin Hansen Collection
- OCLC
- NYPG95-F8
- Author
- Hansen, Austin, 1910-1996, photographer.
- Title
- Austin Hansen collection [graphic] / A. Hansen.
- Imprint
- [193-]-1989.
- Terms Of Use
- Collection is under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.Photo negatives are closed to research.
- Biography
- Austin Hansen, known primarily as a Harlem studio photographer, has had a career in photography that spans nearly seventy years, from the mid-1920s to the present. Hansen was born in St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, on January 28, 1910, where he began his photographic career as a student of Clair Taylor, the Islands' official photographer. Among the first images that he produced were depictions of the hurricane damage done to St. Thomas in 1926 which he sold to the Virgin Islands' government for $4.00. When Charles Lindburgh stopped in the Virgin Islands after his 1927 transatlantic solo flight, Hansen recorded his visit and later sold these pictures to the New York Amsterdam News for $2.00.Moving to Harlem in 1928, Hansen worked at various jobs including messenger, elevator operator, and professional drummer in local Harlem nightclubs. He also continued to pursue a career in professional photography by bringing his camera to gigs and photographing club patrons for a fee. In 1929, he sold an image to the New York Amsterdam News of an African American woman singer performing for Eleanor Roosevelt at the Essex Hotel, for which Hansen was paid $2.00. This would begin his long association with the local African American press as a freelance photojournalist.In the 1930s, Hansen joined the musicians' union, Local 802, which enabled him to play and travel with larger bands. He also studied art and started to expand his photographic output with the assistance of his younger brother, Aubrey, who had arrived in New York in 1939. It was at this time that he began to photograph the Harlem nightclub scene; it also marked the beginning of his photographic record of both the day-to-day occurences in the local community, as well as the activities of notable Harlem residents and distinguished visitors. During this time he also opened his first studio on West 116th Street in Harlem. In 1942, Hansen began to do freelance work for the People's Voice, the newspaper founded and edited by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., both as a contributing photographer, and as "The Mystery Photographer" for the Voice's promotional campaign.Hansen was drafted into the Navy during World War II, and served from July 17, 1943 to January 26, 1945. He was trained as a war photographer and given the rank of Photographer's Mate, 2nd class, later serving on Manus Island in the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific. In 1945, after his discharge from the Navy, he was employed for over a year as a darkroom technician and photographer for the Office of War Information in New York City. After the war, Hansen opened a photo studio on Eagle Ave. in the Bronx. He later owned and operated a studio at 232 W. 135th Street, Harlem, where, for over forty years, he produced an archive of thousands of images depicting Harlem's architecture, religious institutions, businesses, professional schools, social and fraternal organizations, events, and weddings, along with a sizable studio portrait collection of families, clergy, political leaders, entertainers, athletes, police, and writers. As a freelance photographer, Hansen was on assignment for or sold images to such publications as the New York Amsterdam News, the People's Voice, the New York Age, the Pittsburgh Courier (New York edition), African Opinion, and the Afro-American. Austin Hansen died in New York City on January 23, 1996, a few days short of his 86th birthday.
- Indexes
- Finding aid: folder level control.
- Publications
- Hansen's Harlem. New York : New York Public Library, 1989.
- Exhibitions
- Exhibited: "Hansen's Harlem," an exhibition at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1989.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- African-American Day Parade.
- Added Author
- Hansen, Aubrey.A. Hansen Studio (New York, N.Y.)
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Austin Hansen Collection