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Summary
Untitled photo in album (disbound): Types of American Negroes, compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 219.
Title and photographer attribution based on research by D. Willis in Small nation of people; same woman appears in photo no. 220.
B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available.
Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: Small nation of people ... / Library of Congress ... New York: Amistad, 2003, p. 64.
Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930
Tags
Date
01/01/1899
Contributors
Askew, Thomas E., 1850?-1914, photographer
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, collector
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
Public Domain
