Research Catalog

Title

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

<1940?-1960?>

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Whitestone Photo (New York, N.Y.)
• A. Hansen Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Description

• <5> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
• <2> photomechanical prints : b&w ;

Summary

Views of Sadie Alexander: at a political conference receiving a gift from Lester B. Granger; reading "To Secure These Rights"; pulling weeds in the front yard flower bed with Mrs. Logan Williams; in a group portrait, standing next to President Harry Truman, with the President's Committee on Civil Rights in Washington, D.C. (1947); one quarter-length studio portrait, one half-length portrait.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

• Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell, 1898-1989
• Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
• Tobias, Channing H
• Carey, James B
• Ernst, Morris L. 1888-1976
• Tilly, Dorothy Rogers, 1883-1970
• Sherrill, Henry Knox
• Matthews, Francis P
• Shishkin, Boris Basil, 1906-
• Clark, Tom C. 1899-1977
• Luckman, Charles, 1909-
• Dickey, John Sloan, 1907-
• Haas, Francis J. 1889-1953
• Gittelsohn, Roland Bertram, 1910-
• Graham, Frank Porter, 1886-1972
• Potter, Richard
• Wilson, Charles Erwin, 1890-1961
• United States. President's Committee on Civil Rights
• African American lawyers
• Women > Political activity > United States
• Civil rights workers > United States
• African American politicians
• Leisure > 1940-1949
• African Americans > Political activity > 1940-1949

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1940-1959.
• Snapshots – 1940-1959.
• Group portraits – 1940-1959.
• Photomechanical prints – 1940-1959.
• Silver gelatin photoprints – 1940-1959.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs have descriptive information on verso.
• Some items have been cropped; some items are duplicates; one item bears cropping marks.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell

OCLC

NYPG085000182-F

Title

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1940?-1960?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

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Added Author

Whitestone Photo (New York, N.Y.)

A. Hansen Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell