Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 3.0 linear feet (10 boxes)

Summary

1. The Jean Blackwell Hutson photographs, dated 1890s to 1990s, were compiled by Jean Blackwell Hutson (1914-1998), a librarian who served as curator of the Schomburg Collection from 1948 to 1972, then chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 1972 to 1980. The photographs document her family life, travels, and professional career. The collection holds mostly photographs and to a lesser extent some negatives, telegrams and notes.

Subject

1. Photographs
2. United States
3. African American librarians
4. African American soldiers
5. African Americans
6. 1939-1945
7. World War > (1939-1945)
8. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
9. Librarians
10. Photograph albums
11. Black-and-white photographs
12. World War, 1939-1945 > African Americans
13. Hutson, John Oscar, 1915-1957
14. Hutson, Jean Frances, 1952-1992

Genre/Form

1. Black-and-white photographs.
2. Photograph albums.
3. Photographs.

Call number

1. SCP 186248

Provenance (note)

1. Gift of the estate of Jean Blackwell Hutson, 1998.

Author

1. Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998, creator.

Title

1. Jean Blackwell Hutson photographs.

Production

1. 1890s-1990s.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Location of other archival materials

1. Materials Separated from the Resource: These photographs were separated from the Jean Blackwell Hutson papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division. Call number: Sc MG 652.

Provenance

1. Gift of the estate of Jean Blackwell Hutson, 1998.

Connect to:

1. Finding aid

Occupation

1. Librarians.

Chronological term

1. 1939-1945

Research call number

1. SCP 186248