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Elijah Muhammad portrait collection

Title: Elijah Muhammad portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1940?-1989?>

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Status	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.	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Muhammad, Elijah	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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<8> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.
<2> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Views of the leader of the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad. Includes individual portraits of Muhammad as well as group portraits in which he is seen addressing his followers; with Malcolm X; and with Martin Luther King Jr. Collection also includes a group portrait showing Wallace D. Muhammad at a musque dedicated in his honor in Barbados.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1940-1969.
Group portraits – 1940-1979.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1940-1989.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include Mallory and Associated Press.
Some photo have captions.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Muhammad, Elijah

OCLC

NYPG085000838-F

Title

Elijah Muhammad portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1940?-1989?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

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Added Author

Mallory Photo.

Associated Press.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Muhammad, Elijah

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