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Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee portrait collection

Title
Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee portrait collection [graphic].
Publication
[194-?]-1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Anderson, Meredith
  • Barboza, Anthony, 1944-
  • Cottrol, Robert W.
  • Day, Nora
  • Layne, Cecil
  • Norton, Margaret
  • Steele, Lorenzo
  • Mallory Photos
Donor/Sponsor
Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
Subject
  • Davis, Ossie
  • Dee, Ruby
  • D'Lugoff, Art
  • Foster, Gloria, 1936-2001
  • March, Hal, 1920-1970
  • Sharpton, Al
  • Stritch, Elaine
  • Watts, Leontyne
  • African American actors
  • African American actresses
  • African American motion picture actors and actresses
  • African American dramatists
Genre/Form
  • Group portraits – 1940-1999.
  • Publicity photographs – 1970-1989.
  • Television stills – 1980-1989.
  • Gelatin silver prints – 1940-1989.
  • Dye coupler prints – 1990-1999.
Note
  • Title devised by cataloger.
  • Some photographs bear photographer's handstamp on verso; many photographs have handwritten notations on verso; two items have typewritten captions attached to verso, one item has printed caption on recto; some photographs are cropped, two photographs have cropping marks.
  • Photographers include Robert W. Cottrol, Cecil Layne, Anthony Barboza and others.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
Local note
  • Negatives exist for some images.
Call Number
Sc Photo Davis, Ossie and Ruby Dee
OCLC
NYPG085000648-F
Title
Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee portrait collection [graphic].
Imprint
[194-?]-1999.
Description
<4> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.
<8> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
<1> photographic print : col. ; 21 x 31 cm.
Summary
Group portraits and candid views of husband and wife, actor and actress Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee. Collection includes an undated group portrait of Davis and Dee, with student Samuel Albury, during a visit to Wadleigh Junior High School; a view of them attending a salute to Davis's play "Purlie Victorious" (ca. 1961); attending a "Cabaret for Freedom" with Village Gate owner Art D'Lugoff and singer Leontyne Watts (n.d.); in a group portrait with Doris Chambers, Miss Beaux Arts of 1961, comedian Hal March and actress Elaine Stritch (ca. 1961); congratulating actress Gloria Foster after her 100th performance in the production "In White America" (ca. 1963); in a television still for "The Second American Revolution" from the PBS series "A Walk Through the 20th Century" (1984); and participating in a march against police brutality with the Reverend Al Sharpton at New York City's One Police Plaza (1999). Also depicted is an undated view of a poster advertising a performance of "Inside/Out."
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
Local Note
Negatives exist for some images.
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Added Author
Anderson, Meredith. Photographer
Barboza, Anthony, 1944- Photographer
Cottrol, Robert W. Photographer
Day, Nora. Photographer
Layne, Cecil. Photographer
Norton, Margaret. Photographer
Steele, Lorenzo. Photographer
Mallory Photos.
Research Call Number
Sc Photo Davis, Ossie and Ruby Dee
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