Research Catalog

Title

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

<1920?-1959?>

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Bachrach.
• Associated Publishers.
• Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
• Harris & Ewing.

Description

• <4> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
• <2> photomechanical prints : b&w ;

Summary

Views of orator, educator, minister and the first African American president of Howard University, Mordecai Wyatt Johnson approximately dating from the 1920's to the 1950's. Images consists of half-length studio portraits; also includes a full-length portrait of Johnson speaking with a unidentified women in an office.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

• Johnson, Mordecai W
• College presidents > United States
• African American college administrators
• African American orators
• Offices > United States
• African American clergy
• African American college teachers

Genre/Form

• Group portraits – 1920-1959.
• Portrait photographs – 1920-1959.
• Photomechanical prints – 1920-1959.
• Silver gelatin photoprints – 1920-1959.

Note

• Title devised by the cataloger.
• Photographers include Bachrach and Harris & Ewing.
• Some images are duplicates.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Johnson, Mordecai Wyatt

OCLC

NYPG085000543-F

Title

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1920?-1959?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

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Added Author

Bachrach. Photographer

Associated Publishers.

Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)

Harris & Ewing.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Johnson, Mordecai Wyatt