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Lester Granger portrait collection

Title: Lester Granger portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1940?-1959?>

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Status	Vol/Date	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.	folder 2	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Granger, Lester B. folder 2	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	folder 1	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Granger, Lester B. folder 1	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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<19> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
<11> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Views of social worker, civic leader and former executive director of the National Urban League Lester B. Granger. Includes studio and candid portraits of Granger alone and Granger in group portraits. Group portraits were taken at a variety of social and political events and show Granger shaking hands, receiving awards (or with others receiving awards) and inspecting African American troops in the U.S. Navy. Most individuals are unidentified, those identified include Mrs. Granger, Louise Parker, Mollie Moon, M. Stewart Thompson, Malcolm Ross, Charles Zimmerman, George Meany, Frederick Richmond, Lee H. Bristol, Theodore Kheel, Robert Sarmoff, Sam Feldman, Sam Eisenberg, Marda Springer, Vijaya Pandit and Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins, Half, three-quarter and full-length views are included.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1940-1959.
Group portraits – 1940-1959.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1940-1959.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include A. Hansen Studio, Cecil Layne, James C. Campbell and others.
Some images have been cropped; some have captions or written descriptive information on verso; some have grease pencil marks; some photos are duplicates

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 Granger, Lester B.

OCLC

NYPG085000621-F

Title

Lester Granger portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1940?-1959?>

Terms Of Use

Some photos restricted; permission of photographer required for duplication.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

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Added Author

Layne, Cecil. Photographer

Campbell, James C. Photographer

West, William E. J. Photographer

Smith, Archie. Photographer

Moore, Chuck. Photographer

Little, Jimmy K. Photographer

Rapid News Photo (New York, N.Y.)

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

United States. Office of War Information. Domestic Branch. Division of Photography.

Negro Press Photo Service.

Information Associates (New York, N.Y.)

National Urban League.

Urban League of Cleveland.

Whitestone Photo (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Granger, Lester B.

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