Research Catalog

Title

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee photographs.

Author

Davis, Ossie

Publication

1940s-2012.

Supplementary Content

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Details

Subject

• Dee, Ruby
• African American actors
• African American actresses
• African American motion picture producers and directors
• African American political activists
• African American theater
• African Americans on television

Genre/Form

Photographs.

Source (note)

• Purchased from Nora Davis Day and Dr. Hasna Muhammad in 2018.

OCLC

1428570845

Author

Davis, Ossie, creator.

Title

Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee photographs.

Production

1940s-2012.

Description

4.62 linear feet (12 boxes)

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Description

The collection is arranged chronologically in the following groups: Productions, Headshots and Publicity, Events, Personal, and Friends and Other People.

Summary

Ossie Davis (1917-2005) and Ruby Dee (1922-2014) were American actors, writers, and activists whose careers spanned the mediums of theater, film, television, radio, and print. The Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee photographs, dating from the 1940s to 2012, chronicle the couple's performing roles, as well as their public life as activists and relationships with colleagues in the arts.

Location of Other Archival Materials

Materials Separated from the Resource: Photographs transferred from the Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee papers in Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books, Schomburg Center.

Source

Purchased from Nora Davis Day and Dr. Hasna Muhammad in 2018.

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Occupation

Actors.

Actresses.

Civil rights activists.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Collection