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Robert Clifton Weaver photograph collection

Title: Robert Clifton Weaver photograph collection [graphic].
Author: Weaver, Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997
Publication: 1894-1992.

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p1ac Weaver, Robert Clifton, 1907- Robert Clifton Weaver papers, 1869-1970 (CstRLIN)NYPW89-A225

Description

1453 items (9 boxes, 2.5 lin. ft.); 36 x 28 cm. and smaller.
159 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
486 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
114 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
107 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
50 photographic prints : col. ;
54 photographic prints : col. ;
85 photographic prints : col. ;
9 dye transfer prints : col., one b&w ;
6 photomechanical prints : halftone, b&w ;
7 photographic postcards : b&w ;
3 card photographs : b&w ;
5 photographic greeting cards : silver gelatin, b&w ;
2 tintypes ;
326 slides : col. ;
18 news clippings : halftone, b&w ;
12 news clippings : halftone, b&w ;
1 photocopy : b&w ;
1 booklet (8 p.) ;
1 program (30 p.) ;
6 photo albums ;
1 photo case ;

Summary

The Robert Clifton Weaver Photograph Collection depicts aspects of his personal life from the late 1800s to the 1990s, and his professional activities mainly as a government official and public figure from the mid 1950s to the 1970s.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1890-1999.
Group portraits – 1920-1999.
Architectural photographs – 1950-1969.
Gelatin silver prints – 1890-1999.
Dye coupler prints – 1960-1999.
Snapshots – 1910-1999.
Photographic postcards.
Halftone photomechanical prints.
Dye transfer prints – 1970-1979.
Card photographs – 1890-1929.
Slides – 1970-1979.
Clippings – 1950-1969.
Photographic albums – 1920-1959.
Tintypes.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Some photographs have photographer's or photography studio's handstamp on verso; some items have photography studio name printed on recto; some images bear photographer's blind stamp. Some images bear handwritten notations on verso; many items bear either typewritten or printed caption labels on either verso or recto; some photographs have press releases attached to verso.
Some photographs are either matted or mounted; many items are mounted in photo albums or on loose photo album pages, some with either caption labels or handwritten captions; some images have cropping marks; some items bear inscriptions; some items are duplicates.
Collection consists of work by Bill Anderson, Robert L. Knudsen, Layne's Studio and Scurlock Studios, among others.

Terms of Use (note)

Some items are restricted; permission of copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

Robert Clifton Weaver, political official and educator, was born in Washington, D.C. in 1907.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Robert Clifton Weaver Papers, 1869-1970.

Call Number

Sc Photo Robert Clifton Weaver Collection

OCLC

NYPG00-F98

Author

Weaver, Robert C. (Robert Clifton), 1907-1997, collector.

Title

Robert Clifton Weaver photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

1894-1992.

Terms Of Use

Some items are restricted; permission of copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

Robert Clifton Weaver, political official and educator, was born in Washington, D.C. in 1907. Educated at Harvard, where he received three degrees, including a doctorate in economics, Weaver served, beginning in 1933, as an advisor for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration in housing, employment and civil rights, as both a special assistant and as a member of the Administration's "Black Cabinet." Leaving the government in 1944, he served as a race relations advisor in Chicago, worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and held various teaching posts before being appointed New York State Rent Commissioner in 1955, the first African American appointed to the state's Cabinet. In 1961, President John Kennedy appointed Weaver administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency. In 1966, after initial resistance from Southerners in Congress, President Lyndon Johnson established the Department of Housing and Urban Development with Weaver, the first African American appointed to a White House Cabinet post, as its first administrator. After leaving the government in 1968, Weaver was an educator in New York City during the 1970s and was an advisor on housing and transportation issues for New York City and State during the 1970s and 1980s. He died in New York in 1997.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Robert Clifton Weaver Papers, 1869-1970.

Local Note

Sc MG 32

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Added Author

Anderson, Bill. Photographer

Biaugeaud, Jean. Photographer

Cabell, Clifton. Photographer

Dechert, Peter. Photographer

Knudsen, Robert L., photographer.

Otto, Edward. Photographer

Rowe, Abbie. Photographer

Stoughton, Cecil. Photographer

Trimbur, Ted. Photographer

Wolfe, Francis L. Photographer

Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation (Canada)

Layne's Studios (New York, N.Y.)

Pics Photographers (Chicago, Ill.)

Providence Journal-Bulletin.

Scurlock Studios (Washington, D.C.)

United States. General Services Administration.

Found In:

p1ac Weaver, Robert Clifton, 1907- Robert Clifton Weaver papers, 1869-1970 (CstRLIN)NYPW89-A225

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Robert Clifton Weaver Collection

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