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St. Clair Drake photograph collection

Title: St. Clair Drake photograph collection [graphic].
Author: Drake, St. Clair.
Publication: 1932-1984.

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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.	box 2	Picture	Use in library	Sc Photo St. Clair Drake Collection box 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.	box 1	Picture	Use in library	Sc Photo St. Clair Drake Collection box 1	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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p1tc Drake, St. Clair St. Clair Drake papers, 1935-1990 (CStRLIN)NYPW98-A406

Description

574 items (.54 cu. ft., 2 boxes); 34 x 27 cm. and smaller.
111 photographic prints : gelatin silver, b&w, one hand-col. ;
150 photographic prints : gelatin silver, b&w ;
36 photographic prints : col. ;
6 photomechanical prints : halftone, b&w ;
1 stat : b&w, ink ;
9 slides : col. ;
227 negatives : silver gelatin, b&w ;
34 negatives : col. ;

Summary

The collection (1932-1984) consists mainly of anthropological views of West African people, collected by social anthropologist St. Clair Drake, between the 1950s to the early 1960s.

Subject

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1930-1989.
Group portraits – 1930-1989.
Snapshots – 1930-1989.
Film stills – 1950-1959.
Gelatin silver prints – 1930-1989.
Dye coupler prints – 1950-1989.
Photomechanical prints – 1970-1989.
Negatives – 1950-1969.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Some photographs bear photographer's or photo agency's handstamp on verso; one item bears photographer's blind stamp. Some items bear handwritten notations on either verso or recto; one item bears printed caption on recto; some items bear typewritten labels on recto. Some items are mounted. Some items are duplicates.
Collection contains work by Griffith J. Davis, Myron Davis, and the Ghana Information Services Dept., among others.

Terms of Use (note)

Some items are restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

St. Clair Drake (1911-1990), educator and social anthropologist, taught sociology at Roosevelt and Stanford Universities, as well as the Universities of Ghana and Liberia.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the St. Clair Drake Papers, 1935-1990.

Call Number

Sc Photo St. Clair Drake Collection

OCLC

NYPG05-F10155

Author

Drake, St. Clair.

Title

St. Clair Drake photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

1932-1984.

Terms Of Use

Some items are restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

St. Clair Drake (1911-1990), educator and social anthropologist, taught sociology at Roosevelt and Stanford Universities, as well as the Universities of Ghana and Liberia. From the 1930s to the 1980s, he studied Caribbean and West African social life, and the black communities of Chicago, Illinois and Great Britain. He was a prolific lecturer and writer whose major work, "Black Metropolis" (1945) is a study of African-Americans in Chicago.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the St. Clair Drake Papers, 1935-1990.

Local Note

Sc MG 309

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Added Author

Davis, Griffith J. Photographer

Davis, Myron. Photographer

Pratt, Henry. Photographer

Waitzinger, L. A. Photographer

Ghana Stars Photo Works.

Ghana. Information Services Department.

Kenya Information Services.

Found In:

p1tc Drake, St. Clair St. Clair Drake papers, 1935-1990 (CStRLIN)NYPW98-A406

Research Call Number

Sc Photo St. Clair Drake Collection

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