Research Catalog

Title

William Stanley Braithwaite photograph collection [graphic].

Author

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962

Publication

[18--?]-1978.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Battey, C.M.
• Chickering, Elmer
• Platt-Lynes, George
• J.E. Purdy & Co. (Boston, Mass.)
• Vantine & Vantine (Boston, Mass.)
• White Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Found In

p1tc Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1898-1976 (CStRLIN)NYPW90-A51

Subject

• Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962
• Beebe, Lucius, 1902-1966
• Harrison, Richard B
• Hayes, Roland, 1887-1977
• Millikin, Virgil Stanley
• Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972
• Morton, David, 1886-1957
• Sullivan, A. M. (Aloysius Michael), 1896-
• Torrence, Ridgely, 1875-1950
• Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
• Widdemer, Margaret
• African American poets
• African American authors
• Poets, American
• Authors, Americans
• African American families

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1880-1979.
• Group portraits – 1890-1979.
• Snapshots – 1930-1979.
• Film stills – 1940-1949.
• Publicity photographs – 1920-1939.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1880-1969.
• Dye coupler prints – 1950-1979.
• Cartes de visites.
• Cabinet photographs.
• Tintypes.
• Halftone photomechanical prints.
• Graphite drawings – 1950-1959.
• Photographic postcards – 1910-1929.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Many photographs have photographer's or photography studio's name printed on either verso or recto; some matted items have names printed on recto of matte; some items bear photography studio blind stamp; two items bear studio handstamp. Some images are mounted; some photographs bear inscriptions; some items are damaged; some items are duplicates.
• Collection includes work by C.M. Battey, Elmer Chickering, George Platt-Lynes, J.E. Purdy and Co., Vantine and Vantine, and White Studio, among others.

Terms of Use (note)

• No photocopying of original items permitted.

Biography (note)

• William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (1878-1962), was an African-American essayist, poet, literary critic, editor and anthologist. He was also a literature professor at Atlanta University from 1935 to 1945, and won the N.A.A.C.P. Spingarn Award in 1918.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of: William Stanley Braithwaite Papers, 1898-1976.

Local note

• Sc MG 84

Call Number

Sc Photo William Stanley Braithwaite Collection

OCLC

NYPG02-F34

Author

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. Compiler

Title

William Stanley Braithwaite photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

[18--?]-1978.

Description

206 items (.6 lin. ft., 2 boxes)

101 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-col. ; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.

34 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. and smaller.

2 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, one hand-col.; 36 x 28 cm.

6 photographic prints : col. ; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.

13 card photographs : silver gelatin, b&w ; 17 x 11 cm. and smaller.

3 tintypes : b&w ; 9 x 7 cm. and smaller.

4 photomechanical prints : halftone, b&w ; 23 x 16 cm. and smaller.

2 photographic postcards : silver gelatin, b&w ; 14 x 9 cm.

1 drawing : pencil, b&w ; 22 x 16 cm.

24 negatives : silver gelatin, b&w ; 12 x 7 cm. and smaller.

14 negatives : col. ; 9 x 6 cm. and smaller.

2 slides : col. ; 5 x 5 cm.

Organized into three series: I. Personal photographs, 1800s-1978; II. Professional colleagues, 1900s-1950s; III. Miscellaneous, 1910s-1950s.

Summary

The William Stanley Braithwaite Photograph Collection consists mainly of individual and group portraits and snapshots of Braithwaite, his family, friends and colleagues, from around the late 1800s to the late 1970s. The collection also includes some views of street scenes and structures, film stills, publicity photographs, and a view of a gravesite. The collection does not depict Braithwaite's early life, or his activities as a writer or editor, and is limited in depicting his personal life.

The personal photographs series consists of individual and group portraits and candid shots of Braithwaite, family and friends from the 1800s to the 1970s. Included are a studio portrait (ca. 1956) and a candid portrait (1958) of Braithwaite; a group portrait with Braithwaite at an unidentified gathering (n.d.); a group portrait of Braithwaite's wife Emma, daughters Katherine, Edith and Fiona, and granddaughter Joan (n.d.); and a studio portrait of Braithwaite's sisters, Eva and Rosie, as the musical duo Sadie and Rosie, the DeWolfe Sisters (ca. 1890s).

The professional colleagues series consists of individual and publicity portraits from the 1900s to 1950s. Included are studio portraits of writers and poets such as Lucius Beebe, Virgil Stanley Millikin, Margaret Widdemer, Ridgely Torrance, A.M. Sullivan, David Morton and Marianne Moore. Some of these images were probably used for publicity purposes. Other individuals depicted include educator Booker T. Washington, composer W.C. Handy (1940), musician Roland Hayes, and actor Richard B. Harrison in a publicity still for the theatrical production "The Green Pastures" (1930).

The miscellaneous series includes views of Upper Manhattan and the Bronx from Braithwaite's apartment at 409 Edgecomb Avenue, in Harlem (ca. 1950); views of Dana Hall at Wellesley College, Massachusetts (n.d.) and Trinity Church, in Boston (1933); and two film stills from the 1944 film "Since You Went Away," featuring Robert Walker and Jennifer Jones.

Terms Of Use

No photocopying of original items permitted.

Biography

William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite (1878-1962), was an African-American essayist, poet, literary critic, editor and anthologist. He was also a literature professor at Atlanta University from 1935 to 1945, and won the N.A.A.C.P. Spingarn Award in 1918.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: William Stanley Braithwaite Papers, 1898-1976.

Local Note

Sc MG 84

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Added Author

Battey, C.M. Photographer

Chickering, Elmer. Photographer

Platt-Lynes, George. Photographer

J.E. Purdy & Co. (Boston, Mass.)

Vantine & Vantine (Boston, Mass.)

White Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Found In:

p1tc Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962. William Stanley Braithwaite papers, 1898-1976 (CStRLIN)NYPW90-A51

Research Call Number

Sc Photo William Stanley Braithwaite Collection