Charles C. Dawson papers

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Charles C. Dawson papers

1910-1980

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This microfilm collection of the papers of African American artist and museum curator Charles C. Dawson dates from 1910 to 1980. It includes biographical material; a 536 page draft of an autobiography; and correspondence. Correspondence includes United States Infantry correspondence and records, 1912-1923; general correspondence, 1917-1980; correspondence and financial records dealing with Dawson's book <emph render="italic">ABCs of Great Negroes</emph>, 1932-1945; and drafts and fragments of letters written by Dawson. Also included in the collection are miscellaneous business and financial records; writings and notes, including rough drafts, notes, and typescripts; printed material inclduing news releases, newsletters, program notices, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous published items; and photographs of Dawson, his family, friends, and others.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8204921

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Museum of Negro Art and Culture.

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Tuskegee Institute

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George Washington Carver Museum (Tuskegee, Ala.)

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Dawson, Charles C., 1889-

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Artist, museum curator; Chicago, Ill. Studied at the Tuskegee Institute, the Art Students League of New York, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Dawson was a member of the art staff with the Chicago Engravers, a free-lance portrait painter, the Director of Arts and Crafts and Co-Administrator of the City of Chicago Work and Training Program of the National Youth Administration of Illinois, a member of the faculty of the Tuskegee Institute of Alabama as Artist-in-Reside...