Research Catalog

Title

[Photographs] / C. M. Battey.

Author

Battey, C. M. (Cornelius Marion), 1873-1927

Publication

[between 1915 and 1927?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Tuskegee Institute. Photogrphic Division, photographer.

Description

• 29 items (.5 cubic ft., one box); 38 x 28 cm and smaller, three items matted (43 x 36 cm and smaller)
• 26 photographic prints : gelatin silver, one platinum, black and white ;
• 3 photographic postcards : gelatin silver, black and white ;

Summary

• Collection depicts prominent individuals, mostly African American, as well as views of student instruction at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, from the mid-1910s to the 1920s. Collection consists of studio portraits of educators, social activists, writers and songwriters; and views of students in carpentry, agricultural, crafts and homemaking classes. Notable individuals include Tuskegee officials Booker T. Washington and Robert R. Morton; Thomas Jesse Jones of the Phelps-Stokes Fund; social activists W.E.B. DuBois and Frederick Douglass; songwriters J. Rosamond Johnson and Bob Cole; and poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar.
• Images of Morton, Douglass and DuBois are postcards probably issued as part of the "Our Heroes of Destiny" series. Also included are studio portraits of Battey's wife, and a view, possibly of relatives, on the porch of a house.

Subjects

• Photographic postcards > 1920-1929
• Platinum prints > 1910-1919
• Gelatin silver prints > 1910-1929
• Group portraits > 1910-1929
• Portrait photographs > 1910-1929
• African American poets
• African American composers
• Human rights workers > United States
• African American students > Alabama > Tuskegee
• College administrators > Alabama > Tuskegee
• African American universities and colleges > Alabama > Tuskegee
• Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1910-1929.
• Group portraits – 1910-1929.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1910-1929.
• Platinum prints – 1910-1919.
• Photographic postcards – 1920-1929.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some items bear photographic studio's blind stamp; some items bear photographer's and photography studio's name printed on recto. Some items bear printed captions on recto; some items bear printed captions on verso; some items bear handwritten captions on verso; some items bear handwritten captions on recto. One matted item bears blind stamp on mat.

Biography (note)

• C.M. Battey, 1873-1927, was a successful portrait photographer in Cleveland, Ohio, and New York City, from 1900 to 1916. In 1916, he became the head of the Photography Division of Tuskegee Institute where he documented events and activities associated with the school, as well as continuing his photographic portrait work.

Call Number

Sc Photo Portfolio (Battey, C.M.)

OCLC

1273717878

Author

Battey, C. M. (Cornelius Marion), 1873-1927, photographer.

Title

[Photographs] / C. M. Battey.

Production

[between 1915 and 1927?]

Type of Content

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Biography

C.M. Battey, 1873-1927, was a successful portrait photographer in Cleveland, Ohio, and New York City, from 1900 to 1916. In 1916, he became the head of the Photography Division of Tuskegee Institute where he documented events and activities associated with the school, as well as continuing his photographic portrait work.

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Added Author

Tuskegee Institute. Photogrphic Division, photographer.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Portfolio (Battey, C.M.)