Research Catalog

Title

• The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington : picturing the promise / edited by Paul Gardullo ... [et al.].

Publication

[Washington, D.C.] : National Museum of African American History and Culture : In collaboration with the National Museum of American History, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Gardullo, Paul
• National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.)
• National Museum of American History (U.S.)

Description

224 p. : ill. (some col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"Nearly a century's worth of Scurlock photographs combine to form a searing portrait of a black Washington in all its guises - its challenges and its victories, its dignity and its determination. Beginning in the early twentieth century and continuing into the 1990s, Addison Scurlock, followed by his sons, Robert and George, used their cameras to document and celebrate a community unique in the world, and a stronghold in the history and culture of the nation's capital."--Inside jacket.

Alternative Title

Picturing the promise

Subject

• African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > Exhibitions
• African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > History > Exhibitions
• African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
• National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) > Photograph collections > Exhibitions
• National Museum of American History (U.S.) > Photograph collections > Exhibitions
• Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.) > History > Exhibitions
• Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.) > Photograph collections > Exhibitions
• Washington (D.C.) > Exhibitions
• Washington (D.C.) > History > Exhibitions
• Washington (D.C.) > Social life and customs > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition, pictorial works
• History
• Illustrated works

Note

• "Companion volume to the exhibition opening at the National Museum of American History in January 2009"--Jacket flap.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-218) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Deborah Willis -- Remembering Black Washington / Lonnie G. Bunch III -- Good light, fine regard / A.J. Verdelle -- Picturing the promise portfolio. Portraits ; Capturing the city ; Howard University ; Luminaries -- The Scurlock Studio : a biography / Donna M. Wells with David E. Haberstich -- Afterword / Brent D. Glass.

ISBN

• 9781588342621 (hardcover)
• 158834262X (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2008032847

OCLC

236335084

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library