- Creator
- Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne, 1951-
- Call number
- Sc MG 343
- Physical description
- 1.2 linear feet
- Preferred Citation
- Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe manuscript and research collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Access to materials
- Some collections held by the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are held off-site and must be requested in advance. Please check the collection records in the NYPL's online catalog for detailed location information. To request access to materials in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, please visit: http://archives.nypl.org/divisions/scm/request_access Request access to this collection.
Author. Collection comprises Ashe's work in developing VIEWFINDERS, a historiographic photoessay project for publication. The manuscript and research materials are about African-American women photographers in America from 1839 to 1985. While numerous professionals are cited, extensive interview materials are available on the Camera Girls (WACs), Hazel Shumate, Gladys Allen, Eslanda Goode Robeson, Mary Flenoy, Phillda Ragland-Njau, Wilhelmina Roberts, Elsie Forrest Harelson, Vera Jackson, Louise Martin, Louise Jefferson, Mary Warren, Colis Davis, Winifred Hall, and Elizabeth Williams. Transcribed interviews of these photographers are supplemented with interview tapes for Martin, Allen, Roberts, Robeson, Flenoy, and Williams through dialogue either with the individual or an acquaintance. Also included are various pre-publication manuscript and photoprint galleys and proofs, correspondence, and miscellanea.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Gift, Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne, 09/--/1986Key terms
Names
- Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne, 1951-
- Allen, Gladys
- Davis, Colis
- Flenoy, Mary
- Hall, Winifred
- Harelson, Elsie Forrest
- Jackson, Vera
- Jefferson, Louise E.
- Martin, Louise
- Ragland-Njau, Phillda
- Roberts, Wilhelmina
- Robeson, Eslanda Goode, 1896-1965
- Shumate, Hazel
- Warren, Mary
- United States. Army. Women's Army Corps
Subjects
- African American photographers
- African American photographers -- United States -- Biography
- Women and the military -- United States
- Women photographers -- United States
- Women photographerszUnited States -- Biography
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Material types
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor
Access to materials
Some collections held by the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture are held off-site and must be requested in advance. Please check the collection records in the NYPL's online catalog for detailed location information. To request access to materials in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, please visit: http://archives.nypl.org/divisions/scm/request_access Request access to this collection.Conditions Governing Use
Materials are to be used for research and study and are not for publication or sale