Research Catalog

Title

Lawrence D. Reddick portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

<1940?-1989?>

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Layne, Cecil.
• Ransom, Llewellyn.
• DeBiase, John.
• Cosby, John.

Description

• <13> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.
• <10> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of librarian and curator of the Schomburg Collection, college teacher and author Lawrence D. Reddick. Reddick is pictured working with colleagues Catherine A. Latimer, Roberta Thompson, and E.A. Lipscomb at the 135th Street Branch Library; showing the collection to Eleanor Roosevelt with Frank Hopper of NYPL; talking to Margaret Mead and others; speaking in Madison Square Garden; and accepting some letters from Rufus B. Atwood. Full, half and quarter length portraits are included.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Lipscomb, Ernestine Anthony
• Thompson, Roberta
• Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
• Public speaking > New York (N.Y.) > 1940-1949
• African American authors
• Group portraits > 1940-1949
• Hopper, Franklin Francis, 1878-1950
• Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948
• Libraries > New York (State) > New York > 1940-1949
• Portrait photographs > 1940-1959
• Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978
• Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995
• New York Public Library > 135th Street Branch
• African American librarians
• Silver gelatin photoprints > 1940-1989
• African American college teachers
• Atwood, Rufus B

Genre/Form

• Group portraits – 1940-1949.
• Portrait photographs – 1940-1959.
• Silver gelatin photoprints – 1940-1989.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Photographers include Cecil Layne, Llewellyn Ransom, John DeBiase and others.
• Some photographs have captions; some are duplicates; some have written descriptive information; some are cropped.

Terms of Use (note)

• Some photographs are restricted; permission of the photographer required for duplication.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Reddick, Lawrence D.

OCLC

NYPG087000351-F

Title

Lawrence D. Reddick portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1940?-1989?>

Terms Of Use

Some photographs are restricted; permission of the photographer required for duplication.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Layne, Cecil. Photographer

Ransom, Llewellyn. Photographer

DeBiase, John. Photographer

Cosby, John. Photographer

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Reddick, Lawrence D.