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Willie Mays portrait collection

Title: Willie Mays portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1950?-1975?>

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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.	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Mays, Willie	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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<5> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
<4> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Views of baseball player Willie Mays taken between 1950 and the late 1970's. Includes views of Mays in New York Giants, San Francisco Giants and New York Mets uniforms, on and off the field, alone and in group portraits. Mays also seen exercising in a gym, playing basketball, at home in Harlem eating dinner, doing a radio talk show and after church. Individuals identified in group portraits include Yogi Berra, Bob Skinner, Jackson Harris, Buddy Bowser, Ruben Gomez and Monte Irvin. Half- and full-length views are included.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1950-1979.
Group portraits – 1950-1979.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1950-1979.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include Cecil Layne, UPI and Associated Press.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Mays, Willie

OCLC

NYPG085000911-F

Title

Willie Mays portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1950?-1975?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

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Added Author

Layne, Cecil. Photographer

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

United Press International.

Associated Press.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Mays, Willie

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