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Haile Selassie portrait collection

Title: Haile Selassie portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1930?-1954?>

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	folder 2	Picture	Use in library	Sc Photo Haile Selassie	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	folder 1	Picture	Use in library	Sc Photo Haile Selassie	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

Genre/Form

Group portraits – 1930-1959.
Portrait photographs – 1930-1959.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1930-1959.
Dye coupler prints – 1950-1959.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Some images have captions or written descriptive information on verso; some images are torn.
Photographers include Aubrey S. Benners, Cecil Layne and others.

Terms of Use (note)

Some photos restricted; permission of copyright holder required for duplication.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local note

Negatives available for some images.

Call Number

Sc Photo Haile Selassie

OCLC

NYPG085000523-F

Title

Haile Selassie portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1930?-1954?>

Description

<26> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.

<12> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.

<1> photoprint : col. ; 18 x 13 cm.

<1> photoprint : col. ; 13 x 18 cm.

Summary

Portraits and views of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie mainly from the period of 1930 to 1954. The collection includes studio and candid portraits of Selassie (ca. 1935); in a group portrait, surrounded by his court, when he was crowned emperor (1930); a candid shot of son, Prince Makonnen, in uniform (1935); views of eldest son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen (identified here as Asfao Tafari and Asfon Wosan), during his visits to England and France (1932); Selassie, with Prince Makonnen, reviewing troops (1935); views of Ethiopian troops and dancing lancer natives during the war with Italy (1935); Selassie meeting with United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1935); meeting with members of an American military delegation in Ethiopia sometime after his return from exile (ca. 1941); and in a candid view sometime near the end of his reign (ca. 1970). Also depicted are views of his visit to New York City in 1954 including a parade up Broadway in lower Manhattan; meeting New York City Mayor Robert Wagner; being greeted by Rev. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. upon his arrival at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem; and visiting the United Nations with son, Prince Sahle Selassie, and granddaughter, Sebla Desta. Portraits of Ethiopian Minister to the U.S. Ephrem Tewelde Medhen visiting Washington, D.C. in 1943 round out the collection.

Terms Of Use

Some photos restricted; permission of copyright holder required for duplication.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives available for some images.

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Added Author

Benners, Aubrey S. Photographer

Joseph. Photographer

Layne, Cecil. Photographer

Campbell, James C. Photographer

International News Photos (New York, N.Y.)

Ethiopian World Federation.

United Nations.

United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.

Wide World Photos.

Associated Press.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Haile Selassie

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