Research Catalog
Harriet Pickens portrait collection
- Title
- Harriet Pickens portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- [194-?]-[196-?]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 Pickens, Harriet | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Description
- 10 photographic prints : gelatin silver, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
- Summary
- Photographs of civic leader Harriet Pickens who served in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant in the WAVES, from 1944 to 1946, consisting of quarter and three-quarter length studio portraits. Pickens is also depicted in group portraits including one with Alida Darley, Director, Nurses Training School, Harlem Hospital; and with a boy promoting a Christmas Seal fundraising campaign. Collection also includes views of Pickens addressing a group at the New York Public Library (1947); registering, along with Jean Blackwell Hutson, and others for the Planning Institute at the Countee Cullen Branch of the New York Public Library (1952); and pointing to a map of Harlem, New York, that had recorded tuberculosis statistics (1950).
- Subjects
- Group portraits > 1940-1969
- Hutson, Jean Blackwell, 1914-1998
- African American women civic leaders
- United States > Armed Forces > Women
- Portrait photographs > 1940-1969
- Tuberculosis > Reporting > New York (State) > New York
- Pickens, Harriet, 1909-1969
- Gelatin silver prints > 1940-1969
- United States > Armed Forces > African Americans
- Genre/Form
- Portrait photographs – 1940-1969.
- Group portraits – 1940-1969.
- Gelatin silver prints – 1940-1969.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Some photographs bear photographer's or photo agency's handstamp on verso. One item bears photo agency's handstamp on verso. Items bear handwritten captions and/or notations on verso. Some items bear cropping and/or retouching marks; others are cropped.
- Collection contains work by Walter B. Baker, Best, James C. Campbell, Dummett, Nichols, A. F. Sozio among others.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Some items may be restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Pickens, Harriet
- OCLC
- 298243912
- Title
- Harriet Pickens portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- [194-?]-[196-?]
- Terms Of Use
- Some items may be restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Baker, Walter B., photographer.Steinborn, Benedykt, photographer.Campbell, James C., photographer.Dummett, photographer.Nichols, -1991, photographer.Rapid News Photo (New York, N.Y.)
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Pickens, Harriet