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Florence Mills portrait collection

Title: Florence Mills portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1910?-1989?>

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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 Mills, Florence	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 Mills, Florence	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Uniform Title

Daily news (New York, N.Y. : 1920)

Subject

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1910-1929.
Group portraits – 1910-1929.
Autographs.
Photomechanical prints – 1920-1929.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1910-1989.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include Aldene, S. Georges, White Studio and others.
Some images are duplicates; some have inscriptions or are autographed; some have captions; some have written descriptive information on verso.

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Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local note

Negatives available for some images.

Call Number

Sc Photo Mills, Florence

OCLC

NYPG085000876-F

Title

Florence Mills portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1910?-1989?>

Description

<3> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.

<13> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.

<2> photomechanical prints : b&w ; 24 x 20 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Views of singer and dancer Florence Mills, taken approximately between 1910 and 1927. Inclues individual portraits of Mills in and out of stage costume. One shows a young Mills in the cockpit of an airplane in 1927. Mills also seen in group portraits as part of the Panama Girls (with Coral Greene and Ada Smith); possibly with her sisters Olivia and Maude; and with Fred Johnson and U.S. Thompson. Some of the images are part of newspaper articles. Half-and three-quarter length views are included.

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