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[Gabel Webb collection].
- Title
- [Gabel Webb collection].
- Author
- Webb, Gabel
- Publication
- 1920.
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| Status | 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. | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Gabel Webb Collection | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Webb, Gabel
- Description
- 1 album (149 items) : 21 unbound pages; 17 x 26 cm
- 145 snapshots : gelatin silver, black and white ;
- 4 photographic postcards : gelatin siver, black and white ;
- Summary
- Album depicting ocean voyages and views of foreign countries photographed and collected by merchant mariner Gabel Webb in 1920. The album consists of a candid shot of Webb with an unidentified merchant mariner; candid shots and group portraits of merchant mariners, soldiers, foreign dignitaries, and indigenous people; views of vessels in port and out at sea; and views of military and funeral processions, street scenes, individual structures, landscapes, harbors, canal locks, a sailing vessel in distress, and a military burial at sea.
- Of note are views of Black mariners, possibly including Webb, serving on board the merchant vessel, and on shore leave at various foreign ports. Among the locations depicted are the Panama Canal Zone; Manila, Philippines; Nagasaki, Japan; Vladivostok, Russia; the port cities of Hong Kong and Singapore; Colombo, Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Port Said, Egypt; and Trieste, Italy.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Gelatin silver prints – 1920-1929.
- Photograph albums – 1920-1929.
- Snapshots – 1920-1929.
- Photographic postcards – 1920-1929.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Most photographs are mounted to detached album pages that bear handwritten captions. Photographic postcards and some photographs are loose; some bear handwritten captions on verso. Three prints are combined to make a panoramic view.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Collection may be under copyright; permission of copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Biography (note)
- Gabel Webb was an African American mariner who served on board an unnamed merchant vessel that traveled from New York City westward, via the Panama Canal, crossed the Pacific Ocean to sea ports located in Asia, passed through the Suez Canal to ports in the Mediterranian, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean back to New York, from January to July 1920.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Gabel Webb Collection
- OCLC
- 1286278322
- Author
- Webb, Gabel, collector.
- Title
- [Gabel Webb collection].
- Production
- 1920.
- Type of Content
- still image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- sheet
- Terms Of Use
- Collection may be under copyright; permission of copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Biography
- Gabel Webb was an African American mariner who served on board an unnamed merchant vessel that traveled from New York City westward, via the Panama Canal, crossed the Pacific Ocean to sea ports located in Asia, passed through the Suez Canal to ports in the Mediterranian, and crossed the Atlantic Ocean back to New York, from January to July 1920.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Webb, Gabel, photographer.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Gabel Webb Collection