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Portrait photographs of African Americans

Description: A group of nine photographs of unidentified African American men, women, and children, mostly studio portraits taken between approximately 1888 and 1910. One photograph of a young man and woman dates to the 1930s and has been made into a metal button. Three card photographs have photographer's imprints from Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Jersey City, New Jersey; and Philadelphia. There is also a photographic postcard and a double-sided stereograph, possibly from the early 1900s, with images of a Black couple on a swing on one side, and a group of Black children playing marbles on the other side, with stereotypical language in the printed captions.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1880s-1930s.
Call number: photCL 665
Provenance: Gift of Nancy Rosin, 2017. Received along with the Nancy and Henry Rosin Collection of Valentine, Friendship, and Devotional Ephemera. Transferred to Photograph Collections, 2022.

Portrait photographs of African Americans

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A group of nine photographs of unidentified African American men, women, and children, mostly studio portraits taken between approximately 1888 and 1910. One photograph of a young man and woman dates to the 1930s and has been made into a metal button. Three card photographs have photographer's imprints from Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Jersey City, New Jersey; and Philadelphia. There is also a photographic postcard and a double-sided stereograph, possibly from the early 1900s, with images of a Black couple on a swing on one side, and a group of Black children playing marbles on the other side, with stereotypical language in the printed captions.

photCL 665

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Photographs of African American religious and masonic life in Pasadena, California

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The collection spans approximately 1954 through 1970 and includes one program from the September 8, 1963 Bethel Baptist Church Ground Breaking Service and 18 black-and-white photographs (8 x 10 inches) of Bethel, Freemason, and Order of the Eastern Star members and events. This includes images of the Bethel members and presumably Reverend Freeman S. Stevens attending the church's Ground Breaking Service, images of the Bethel building located at 1972 North Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena, California, and the 1970 National Baptist Convention in Shreveport, Louisiana. Other photographs depict members of Bethel's 9:00 O' Clock Men's Club, a large gathering of several Masonic organizations outside of a Masonic Grand Lodge in California, the men and women of the Silver Leaf Chapter No. 7 Order of the Eastern Star, two portraits of Chapter No. 7 treasurer Louise T. Butler at the King Solomon Lodge No. 10, and one photograph of the July 15, 1964 Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star Grand Session at the El Cortez Hotel Banquet Room in San Diego, California. Also within the collection is one black and white image of a well-dressed African American man posing on a rooftop patio, the verso reads "Mr. Kincaid". The majority of images include descriptive information on the verso.

photCL 696

Hualapai children

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Photo of a group of native children standing on the side of a road and a man standing in front of a building on the other side.

photCL 449 (24)

Group portrait of children

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A panoramic portrait of an unidentified children's group in a park. The group consists of over 150 children, a dozen women, and one man. Some of the children have badges with the letter "L" attached to their clothes, while some others have black ribbons tied around their left arms.

photCL 402 (40053)

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Copy portrait of an African-American man

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The Harold A. Parker Studio Collection of Negatives consists of 5157 glass plate negatives, film negatives, and panoramic negatives, 1889-1949, that depict commercial, residential and landscape sites in and around Pasadena and Southern California. The images provide a look at the commercial, residential and social development of Pasadena and surrounding areas during the early years of the twentieth century. The collection is especially rich in images of residential architecture in Pasadena, Altadena, and San Marino; images of Lake Tahoe; depictions of, and activities at, the Raymond, Maryland, and Huntington Hotels in Pasadena; and the commercial, social and cultural landscapes of Pasadena. The collection also provides, through its breadth and depth of subject matter, an example of the career activities of a commercial photographer in Southern California in the early years of the twentieth century.

photCL 402

Children at the Maryland Hotel, 415 East Colorado, Pasadena. 1926

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Children playing on and around a slide at a playground of the Maryland Hotel at 415 East Colorado. A swing set is on the left.

photCL 402 (28887)

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