Julius Lazarus photographs, scrapbooks, and other material, circa 1910-2008.

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Julius Lazarus photographs, scrapbooks, and other material, circa 1910-2008.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/759992535

This collection contains black-and-white photographs and films taken by Julius Lazarus and his business files including a photocopy of each photograph, with correspondence, and permissions for use. It also includes photocopies of Lazarus' photographs held at other educational institutional repositories, primarily Rutgers University's Special Collections and University Archives. Photocopies to which Rutgers University holds copyright are stamped or noted. Many of the photographs in this collection document Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Dubois in the United States, Soviet Union, and Europe. There are also five scrapbooks in this collection containing newspaper and magazine clippings documenting Lazarus' photographic coverage of youth cultural and sports festivals in Europe, left-wing union events, poverty and rent evictions in New York City, and protest rallies against racial segregation and discrimination. Finally, a moving image series contains silent videotapes, DVDs, Betamax tapes, and film reels documenting Progressive Party (1948) and anti-fascist rallies, as well as footage in Paris and Vienna in the 1930s.

12 moving image recordings, 2 films, 1 poster, 16 photographs, 5 scrapbooks.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 8148259

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976

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Born in Princeton, New Jersey, on April 9, 1898, Paul Robeson was a multitalented man whose artistic and political career spanned over four decades, from the 1920s to the 1960s. Known worldwide during the 1930s and 1940s, he fell from prominence in the 1960s because of the political controversy that surrounded him during the McCarthy era. Robeson was a talented dramatic actor whose performance of Othello in this country in 1943-44 once held the record for the ...

Lazarus, Julius, 1918-2008

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Austrian-educated photographer Julius Lazarus emigrated to the United States in 1939. He was active in progressive politics and unionism, traveling extensively as a free-lance photographer. From the description of Julius Lazarus photographs, scrapbooks, and other material, circa 1910-2008. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 759992535 Born Sept. 16, 1918 in Czechoslovakia, Mr. Lazarus lived with his parents in New York City in 1948 and took these p...

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 ...

Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948)

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Curtis MacDougall was born on February 11, 1903, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He started his career as a journalist there at the Fond du Lac Commonwealth-Reporter at the age of fifteen. He received a BA in English from Ripon College in Wisconsin in 1923. He went on to obtain a Master's from Northwestern University in 1926 and a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin in 1933. After working at several newspapers, he joined the faculty of Northwestern University in 1935. During the depress...