African American photograph collection, 1918-1951.

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African American photograph collection, 1918-1951.

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This collection assembled by Historical Collections and Labor Archives includes a small selection of black and white photographs. The photographs include a small group of African American laborers in 1951 at Pennsylvania State College, an unidentified African American graduate student in mortarboard, Allentown, Pennsylvania, and negatives of a group of African American women steel workers. Another small grouping consists of a photograph of Daniel Murray, Librarian of the Congressional Library, addressed to his "friend Henry P. Slaughter, 1918;" portraits of James O. Holmes, Washington, D.C.; a portrait of W.E.B. DuBois, educator/author; and a group photograph of W.E.B. DuBois, W. Johnson, and one other unidentified African-American gentleman.

6 black-and-white photographs, 2 negatives.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7369621

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State College

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Holmes, James O.

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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

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W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor. Educated at Fisk University, he did graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. Du Bois became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University. Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects ...

Johnson, W.

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Murray, Daniel Alexander Payne, 1852-1925

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Librarian and historian. From the description of Papers of Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, 1881-1966 (bulk 1895-1930). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79321135 Assistant librarian at the Library of Congress (1881-1925). From the description of Daniel Murray papers, 1872-1937. (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 739713850 Librarian. From the description of Papers of Daniel Alexander Payne Murray, 1900-1970. (Unknown). WorldC...