Research Catalog
Vernon E. Jordan portrait collection
- Title
- Vernon E. Jordan portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1960?-1979?>
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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 Jordan, Vernon E. | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- <9> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 28 cm. or smaller.
- <12> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- Summary
- Views of lawyer, civil rights activist and National Urban League President Vernon Jordan. Collection includes individual studio portraits; also Jordan seen at a variety of events including those sponsored by the National Urban League and the National Urban Coalition with many presentation ceremonies; with the NAACP at the White House; at a Bobby Kennedy Memorial dinner; and other unidentified events. In these group portraits Jordan is seen with Kate Millet, Robert E. James, Stephen N. Lockett, Jacqueline Onassis, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley, Carl Holman, Maynard Jackson, Martha "Bunny" Mitchell, Stanley S. Scott, Nobel Prize winner Dr. James Watson, Herbert H. Wright, Dorothy Height, Gerald Ford and Paula Giddings. Collection also includes a portrait of Jordan's mother Mary.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Jordan, Vernon E (Vernon Eulion), 1935-2021
- African American lawyers
- Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
- Silver gelatin photoprints > 1960-1979
- Public Speaking > United States > 1960-1979
- Wright, Herbert H
- Group portraits > 1960-1979
- Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994
- Manley, Michael, 1924-1997
- Portrait photographs > 1960-1979
- Wilkins, Roy, 1901-
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Offices > United States > 1960-1979
- White House (Washington, D.C.)
- Jackson, Maynard
- Civil rights workers > United States
- Rewards & prizes > 1960-1979
- Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006
- National Urban League
- Activists > 1960-1979
- Height, Dorothy I (Dorothy Irene), 1912-
- Genre/Form
- Group portraits – 1960-1979.
- Portrait photographs – 1960-1979.
- Silver gelatin photoprints – 1960-1979.
- Note
- Title devised by the cataloger.
- Some images are duplicates; some photographs have descriptive information on verso.
- Photographers include Bill Whiting, Bill Price and others.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Jordan, Vernon E.
- OCLC
- NYPG085000548-F
- Title
- Vernon E. Jordan portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- <1960?-1979?>
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Whiting, Bill, photographer.Cirone, Bettina, photographer.Price, Bill, photographer.Bachrach, Fabian, photographer.Milton Fenster Associates.Peter Martin Associates.Philip Morris Incorporated.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Jordan, Vernon E.