Research Catalog

Title

Paul Laurence Dunbar portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

<1933?-1990?>

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Baker.

Description

• <7> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
• <2> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• <3> photomechanical reproductions ; b&w and col. ;
• <2> photomechanical reproductions : b&w ;

Summary

Views of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Collection includes quarter, half and three-length studio portraits; a group portrait of Dunbar's Dayton Ohio High School's Philomathean Society; full-length portraits of Dunbar's mother; an unidentified man looking at a painted portrait of Dunbar; and reproductions of the title pages of four books of poems written by Dunbar: Candle-'Lightin' Time, Lyrics of a Lowly Life, Majors and Minors and Poems of Cabin and Field. A print of a half-length portrait of Dunbar can be found in Portraits -- Oversize.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

• Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
• Dunbar, Mathilda Murphy
• African American poets
• African American authors
• African American novelists
• Portrait paintings > 1940-1949

Genre/Form

• Title pages – Reproductions.
• Portrait photographs – 1890-1940.
• Group portraits – 1890-1899.
• Photomechanical prints – 1950-1969.
• Silver gelatin photoprints – 1890-1989.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photos are duplicates; some have descriptive information written or attached to verso.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Dunbar, Paul Laurence

OCLC

NYPG085000685-F

Title

Paul Laurence Dunbar portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1933?-1990?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives available for some images.

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Added Author

Baker. Photographer

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Dunbar, Paul Laurence