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Mary Lou Williams portrait collection

Title: Mary Lou Williams portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1944?-1980?>

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Status	Vol/Date	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.	folder 3	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Williams, Mary Lou folder 3	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	folder 2	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Williams, Mary Lou folder 2	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	folder 1	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Williams, Mary Lou folder 1	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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<1> photomechanical print : b&w; 11 x 8 cm.
<4> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
<31> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of jazz pianist and college teacher Mary Lou Williams. Collection consists mainly of promotional stills of Williams and candid views of her playing. A couple of group portraits are of Williams with Cecil Taylor, and writing or making notes with Al Hall and Bill Coleman in an apartment. Full, half and quarter length portraits.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

Genre/Form

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

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include James J. Kriegsmann, K. Abe, Sulaiman Ellison and others.
Some photographs bear captions; some are duplicates; some are cropped; some have written descriptive information.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Williams, Mary Lou

OCLC

NYPG087000140-F

Title

Mary Lou Williams portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1944?-1980?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Kriegsmann, James J. Photographer

Abe, K. Photographer

Ellison, Sulaiman, 1951- Photographer

Mili, Gjon, 1904- Photographer

Keleher, Daniel. Photographer

Tremain, Don. Photographer

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Williams, Mary Lou

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