Research Catalog
Zora Neale Hurston portrait collection
- Title
- Zora Neale Hurston portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1920?-1950?>
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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. | Picture | Use in library | Sc Photo Hurston, Zora Neale | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Description
- <16> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
- <1> photoprint : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- Summary
- Views of Harlem Renaissance novelist, folklorist and anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston approximately dated from 1920's to the 1950's. Images include portraits of Hurston at the W.P.A. booth at the NY Times bookfair reading book "American Stuff"; in a rocking chair, on a porch, smoking a cigarette; some images are studio portraits; half and full-length views are included. A print of a quarter-length portrait can be found in Portraits - Oversize.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 1920-1949.
- Silver gelatin photoprints – 1920-1949.
- Note
- Title devised by the cataloger.
- Some images are duplicates; some photos are fragile; some images have been cropped.
- Photographers include Carl Van Vechten, Stetson Kennedy, and the Federal Writer's Project, among others.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Some photos restricted; permission of photographer required for duplication.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Hurston, Zora Neale
- OCLC
- NYPG085000484-F
- Title
- Zora Neale Hurston portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- <1920?-1950?>
- Terms Of Use
- Some photos restricted; permission of photographer required for duplication.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Local Note
- Negatives exist for some images.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. PhotographerKennedy, Stetson. PhotographerFederal Writers' Project.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Hurston, Zora Neale