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Arna Bontemps portrait collection

Title: Arna Bontemps portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1930?-1959?>

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Picture	Use in library	Sc Photo Bontemps, Arna	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Description

<7> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm or smaller.

Summary

Portraits of author, poet, historian and librarian Arna Bontemps dating between the 1930s and 1950s, consisting of half and quarter-length portraits of Bontemps as Librarian at Fisk University; a publicity photograph for the book "Black Thunder"; a view of Arna Bontemps at his office typewriter; and a view of Bontemps with Fisk University President Charles S. Johnson viewing an oversized book.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1930-1959.
Autographs.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1930-1959.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include Carl Van Vechten and Marion Palfi.
Two items bear handwritten captions on verso; one item bears printed caption on recto. One item is autographed. Two items are duplicates.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Bontemps, Arna

OCLC

NYPG085000193-F

Title

Arna Bontemps portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1930?-1959?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Photographer

Palfi, Marion, 1907-1978. Photographer

Moss Photo (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Bontemps, Arna

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