Research Catalog

Title

Jones-Sadler family photograph collection [graphic].

Publication

[188-?-193-?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Rumsey Studio (Jacksonville, Fla.)

Found In

nntc Jones-Sadler family papers, 1876-1931 (CstRLIN)NYPW086000012-A

Description

• 3 items (1 folder); 19 x 14 cm. and smaller.
• 2 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 1 photographic postcard : b&w ;

Summary

The Jones-Sadler Family Photograph Collection consists of a full-length studio portrait of Jones (n.d.); a photographic postcard, depicting Jones reclining in a chair, which is inscribed "on a Vacation in Fla. 1919"; and a wide angle view of Jones sitting in his study (n.d.).

Subjects

• Photographic postcards > 1910-1919
• Portrait photographs > 1880-1939
• African American legislators > Mississippi
• Jones, Cornelius J., 1858-1931
• Gelatin silver prints > 1880-1939
• African American lawyers

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1880-1939.
• Photographic postcards – 1910-1919.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1880-1939.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Two items have handwritten descriptive information on verso; photographic postcard has photography studio blind stamp on recto.
• Photographic postcard by Rumsey Studio, Jacksonville, Fla.

Biography (note)

• Cornelius J. Jones, born in 1858 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, was an attorney and political figure.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Jones-Sadler Family Papers, 1876-1931.

Call Number

Sc Photo Jones-Sadler Family Collection

OCLC

NYPG97-F28

Title

Jones-Sadler family photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

[188-?-193-?]

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Jones-Sadler Family Papers, 1876-1931.

Biography

Cornelius J. Jones, born in 1858 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, was an attorney and political figure. He was the first African American lawyer to present an oral argument before the United States Supreme Court in the case of John Gibson vs. the State of Mississippi (1896). He was also elected to the Mississippi State Legislature in 1889, and was twice the Republican candidate for the 3rd Congressional District in Mississippi (1896 and 1898). In 1903, after moving to Indian Territory (later Oklahoma), Jones was nominated as a Republican delegate to the State Constitutional Convention. He established a law practice in Muskogee, Oklahoma, during his later years, and died in 1931.

Local Note

Sc MG 263

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Added Author

Rumsey Studio (Jacksonville, Fla.)

Found In:

nntc Jones-Sadler family papers, 1876-1931 (CstRLIN)NYPW086000012-A

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Jones-Sadler Family Collection