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Clara Ward portrait collection

Title: Clara Ward portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1945?-1969?>

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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 Ward, Clara	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Description

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

Summary

Portraits of gospel singer Clara Ward. Collection contains promotional stills of Ward alone and with singing groups, some that include her mother, Gertrude Ward, sister Willa and Marion Williams, backstage with Anthony Newley and dining with Marva Revis. Full, three quarter and quarter length portraits are included.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Group portraits – 1940-1969.
Publicity photographs – 1940-1959.
Portrait photographs – 1940-1959.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1940-1969.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include James J. Kriegsmann, Cecil Layne and Werner Kuhn.
Some photographs bear captions; some are cropped; some have written descriptive information.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Ward, Clara

OCLC

NYPG087000081-F

Title

Clara Ward portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1945?-1969?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Kriegsmann, James J. Photographer

Layne, Cecil. Photographer

Kuhn, Werner. Photographer

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Ward, Clara

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