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Roy Campanella portrait collection

Title: Roy Campanella portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1950?-1989?>

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Request Appointment 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 Campanella, Roy	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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<8> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
<4> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of baseball catcher and business executive Roy Campanella ranging from the 1950s to the 1980s. Collection includes half, three quarter and full-length views, some promotional, of Campanella in his Dodgers uniform; with baseball colleagues Don Newcombe, Joe Black. Campanella is in group portraits, taken both before and after he was confined to a wheelchair, attending and being honored at a variety of functions, including one in an unidentified stadium, possibly with the all-stars from the Brooklyn Dodgers. Included also is a photo of Campanella's son, David, at age 15, and a group shot of Campanella shooting pool with teenage boys.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

Genre/Form

Group portraits – 1950-1989.
Portrait photographs – 1950-1989.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1950-1989.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographs have captions; some photographs contain written descriptive information; some are cropped; some have airbrush marks.
Photographers include Cecil Layne, M. Associates, Wide World Photos and others.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Campanella, Roy

OCLC

NYPG085000790-F

Title

Roy Campanella portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1950?-1989?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

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Added Author

Layne, Cecil. Photographer

Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)

United Press International.

M. Associates (New York, N.Y.)

Wide World Photos.

Los Angeles Dodgers (Baseball team)

Layne's Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Campanella, Roy

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