Object Details
Photographer
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Names
Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955
Brown, Roscoe C.
Caliver, Ambrose, 1894-1962
Evans, Joseph H.
Home, Frank
Houston, Charles Hamilton, Dr., 1895-1950
Oxley, Lawrence A.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Thompkins, William J., Dr.
Weaver, Robert C., Dr.
Series Creator
Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994
Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
Custom Craft
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005
Series Citation
Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution
Scope and Contents
Front row, left to right: Dr. Ambrose Caliver, Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Dr. Robert C. Weaver, Joseph H. Evans, Dr. Frank Horne, Mary McLeod Bethune, Lt. Lawrence A. Oxley, Dr. William J. Thompkins, Charles E. Hall, William I. Houston, Ralph E. Mizelle. Back row, left to right: Dewey R. Jones, Edgar Brown, J. Parker Prescott, Edward H. Lawson, Jr., Arthur Weiseger, Alfred Edgar Smith, Henry A. Hunt, John W. Whitten, Joseph R. Houchins. (Sources: information provided by Cynthia Hunt-Easley and Wanda Hunt-McLean; Langston Hughes, Milton Meltzer and C. Eric Lincoln, A Pictorial History of Black Americans, New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., 1973.)
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Place
Washington (D.C.) -- African Americans
Occupation
Lawyers
Topic
Presidents -- United States
African American lawyers
Portraits, Group -- 1930-1940 -- Washington (D.C.).
Photographer
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Culture
African Americans -- Washington (D.C.)
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Sponsor
The collection was acquired with assistance from the Eugene Meyer Foundation. Elihu and Susan Rose and the Save America's Treasures program, provided funds to stabilize, organize, store, and create digital surrogates of some of the negatives. Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Extent
1 Item
Medium
Silver gelatin on paper, 5" x 10".
Archival Repository
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Type
Archival materials
Photographs
Series Rights
When the Museum purchased the collection from the Estate of Robert S. Scurlock, it obtained all rights, including copyright. The earliest photographs in the collection are in the public domain because their term of copyright has expired. The Archives Center will control copyright and the use of the collection for reproduction purposes, which will be handled in accordance with its standard reproduction policy guidelines. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Genre/Form
Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- Black-and-white photoprints -- Silver gelatin
Series Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view negatives due to cold storage. Using negatives requires a three hour waiting period. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270.
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Record ID
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