Groups of Images (LOTs)

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• Title: NAACP portraits of founders, board members, staff, branch officers, and other prominent cultural, social, and political figures
• Date Created/Published: ca. 1884-1967, bulk 1944-1960.
• Medium: 977 photographic prints : various media, most gelatin silver, b&w, 7 color ; various sizes, most 8 x 10 in. or smaller, some as large as 55 x 40 cm.
  24 prints : 1 engraving, 1 lithograph, 17 photomechanical, 5 photocopy, b&w ; 42 x 32 cm. or smaller.
• Summary: Portrait and publicity photographs of individuals and groups used for publication and public relations purposes. Emphasis is on NAACP administrative and executive staff, branch officers and members; includes African American entertainers, authors, political figures, labor leaders, and some foreign government officials; photos of children and young adults. Many photos capture people in unposed situations. Some individuals and groups unidentified. Includes snapshots, some card photographs, and several photographic postcards. NAACP staff and other prominent people depicted in 5 or more portraits: Daisy Bates, Margurite Belafonte, James Weldon Johnson, Thurgood Marshall, E. Frederic Morrow, Clarence Muse, Mary White Ovington, Arthur Spingarn, Walter White, Roy Wilkins, Louis T. Wright.
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Visual Materials from the NAACP ...,"(http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/086_naa.html)
  
• Call Number: LOT 13074 (F and H) USE MICROFILM [P&P]
• Notes:
  • Arrangement: Organized into four subject categories: Identified individual portraits; Unidentified portraits; Children; Groups. Arrangement: Identified portraits arranged alphabetically by surname.
  • Collection finding aid available.
  • Images available on microfilm (including finding aid); Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.
  • Most images bear original handwritten or typed identifications on versos; many accompanied by press releases, newspaper clippings, or letters. Some images autographed by the sitter.
  • Includes five photocopies made from original NAACP negatives (negative series LC-NA24 and LC-NA14) by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1994.
  • Includes some preservation photocopies made by the Prints and Photographs Division from original brittle newspaper clippings or captions found with the images.
  • The following prominent photographers have one or more works which are scattered throughout the LOT: Ed Bagwell, Cecil Layne, Layne's Studio, Arnold Newman, P.H. Polk, Scurlock Studio, M. Smith, James Van Der Zee, Carl Van Vechten.
  • Many images cropped or otherwise marked for publication.
  • Lot title devised.
  • Forms part of: Visual materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records (Library of Congress).
• Subjects:
  • Bates, Daisy.
  • Belafonte, Margurite.
  • Johnson, James Weldon,--1871-1938.
  • Marshall, Thurgood,--1908-1993.
  • Morrow, E. Frederic--(Everett Frederic),--approximately 1906-1994.
  • Muse, Clarence.
  • Ovington, Mary White,--1865-1951.
  • Spingarn, Arthur B.--(Arthur Barnett),--1878-1971.
  • White, Walter,--1893-1955.
  • Wilkins, Roy,--1901-1981.
  • Wright, Louis T.--(Louis Tompkins),--1891-1952.
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--People--1880-1970.
  • African Americans--1880-1970.
  • African Americans--Children--1880-1970.
  • Government officials--1880-1970.
  • Entertainers--1880-1970.
  • Athletes--1880-1970.
  • Students--1880-1970.
  • Labor leaders--1880-1970.
  • Civil rights leaders--1880-1970.
  • Authors--1880-1970.
• Format:
  • Cabinet photographs--1880-1970.
  • Cartes de visite--1880-1970.
  • Clippings--1880-1970.
  • Engravings--1880-1970.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1880-1970.
  • Group portraits--1880-1970.
  • Lithographs--1880-1970.
  • Photographic postcards--1880-1970.
  • Photomechanical prints--1880-1970.
  • Portrait photographs--1880-1970.
  • Publicity photographs--1880-1970.
• Collections:
  • Groups of Images (LOTs)
• Part of: Visual materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records (Library of Congress)
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Groups of Images (LOTs)

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• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Visual Materials from the NAACP ...," http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/086_naa.html
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: LOT 13074 (F and H) USE MICROFILM [P&P]
• Medium: 977 photographic prints : various media, most gelatin silver, b&w, 7 color ; various sizes, most 8 x 10 in. or smaller, some as large as 55 x 40 cm.
  24 prints : 1 engraving, 1 lithograph, 17 photomechanical, 5 photocopy, b&w ; 42 x 32 cm. or smaller.

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• Call Number: LOT 13074 (F and H) USE MICROFILM [P&P]
• Medium: 977 photographic prints : various media, most gelatin silver, b&w, 7 color ; various sizes, most 8 x 10 in. or smaller, some as large as 55 x 40 cm.
  24 prints : 1 engraving, 1 lithograph, 17 photomechanical, 5 photocopy, b&w ; 42 x 32 cm. or smaller.

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