Research Catalog
Robert S. Abbott portrait collection
- Title
- Robert S. Abbott portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1920?-1960?>
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 Abbott, Robert S. | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Associated Publishers.
- Description
- <3> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w, toned; 25 x 20 cm. or smaller.
- <14> photomechanical prints (7 sheets) : b&w ;
- Summary
- Views of journalist and editor Robert S. Abbott. Four half-length, one full-length, portraits of Abbott; views from Ottley book are Flora Abbott Sengstake, Abbott's mother at the unveiling of the Chicago Defender's 1st press, 1921; The Hampton Institute Quartet in which Abbott sang, 1890-1896; the 1921 home of the Chicago Defender; a photo of lynching; Abbott at the tomb of the unknown soldier, Paris, 1929; Abbott at the peak of his career; Abbott's mansion on South Parkway, Chicago; monument Abbott erected on St. Simons Island, Georgia to his ex-slave father; Abbott's St. Simons Island birthplace; Abbott's childhood home in Savannah, Georgia; the German branch of the Sengstacke family (Abbott's stepfather's family) residing in Bremen.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Lynchings
- Mansions > Illinois > Chicago
- Abbott, Robert S (Robert Sengstacke), 1868-1940
- Sengstacke Family
- Newspaper industry
- Chicago defender (Chicago, Ill. : 1905)
- African American newspapers
- Hampton Quartet (Musical group)
- Monuments & memorials > Georgia > Saint Simons Island
- Dwellings > Georgia > Savannah
- Editors > United States
- African American journalists
- Group portraits
- Photomechanical prints
- Abbott, Thomas > Monuments
- Sengstacke, Flora Abbott
- Unknown soldiers
- African Americans in the newspaper industry
- Silver gelatin photoprints
- Portrait photographs
- Families
- Birthplaces > Georgia > Saint Simons Island
- Monuments & memorials > France > Paris
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs.
- Group portraits.
- Photomechanical prints.
- Silver gelatin photoprints.
- Note
- 12 of the photomechanical reproductions in: The Lonely Warrior: the life and times of Robert S. Abbott/Roi Ottley. Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1955, and contain captions.
- Collection contains duplicates.
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Abbott, Robert S.
- OCLC
- NYPG085000180-F
- Title
- Robert S. Abbott portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- <1920?-1960?>
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Local Note
- Negatives exist for some of the images.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Associated Publishers.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Abbott, Robert S.