Research Catalog

Title

Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

[194-?]-1999.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Anderson, Meredith.
• Barboza, Anthony, 1944-
• Cottrol, Robert W.
• Day, Nora.
• Layne, Cecil.
• Norton, Margaret.
• Steele, Lorenzo.
• Mallory Photos.

Description

• <4> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.
• <8> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• <1> photographic print : col. ;

Summary

Group portraits and candid views of husband and wife, actor and actress Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Gelatin silver prints > 1940-1989
• Television stills > 1980-1989
• Dye coupler prints > 1990-1999
• African American motion picture actors and actresses
• Group portraits > 1940-1999
• African American dramatists
• African American actresses
• African American actors
• Publicity photographs > 1970-1989
• Dee, Ruby
• D'Lugoff, Art
• Watts, Leontyne
• Awards > 1960-1969
• March, Hal, 1920-1970
• African Americans > Political activity > New York (State) > New York > 1990-1999
• Davis, Ossie
• Foster, Gloria, 1936-2001
• African Americans > Social life > 1940-1969
• Sharpton, Al
• Stritch, Elaine

Genre/Form

• Group portraits – 1940-1999.
• Publicity photographs – 1970-1989.
• Television stills – 1980-1989.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1940-1989.
• Dye coupler prints – 1990-1999.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs bear photographer's handstamp on verso; many photographs have handwritten notations on verso; two items have typewritten captions attached to verso, one item has printed caption on recto; some photographs are cropped, two photographs have cropping marks.
• Photographers include Robert W. Cottrol, Cecil Layne, Anthony Barboza and others.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Davis, Ossie and Ruby Dee

OCLC

NYPG085000648-F

Title

Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

[194-?]-1999.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Anderson, Meredith. Photographer

Barboza, Anthony, 1944- Photographer

Cottrol, Robert W. Photographer

Day, Nora. Photographer

Layne, Cecil. Photographer

Norton, Margaret. Photographer

Steele, Lorenzo. Photographer

Mallory Photos.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Davis, Ossie and Ruby Dee