Found 5 collections related to Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

The Schomburg Tintype collection dates from the 1850s through the 1870s, and consists of seventeen tintypes. The portraits depict primarily Black families, couples, and individuals, posed in a portrait style, photographs taken by Black photographers, and most likely enslaved Black women with the white children in their care. less

The Jean Blackwell Hutson photographs, dated 1890s to 1990s, were compiled by Jean Blackwell Hutson (1914-1998), a librarian who served as curator of the Schomburg Collection from 1948 to 1972, then chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 1972 to 1980. The photographs document her family life, travels, and professional career. The collection holds mostly photographs and to a lesser extent some negatives, telegrams and notes. less

The Schomburg Center nineteenth and early twentieth-century Caribbean photographs collection, which dates from about 1855 to 1930, consists of approximately 680 photographic prints and 11 photograph albums. Images in this collection depict agricultural scenes, wilderness landscapes, urban views, and industrial settings, as well as local people, tourists, and foreign business people in the Caribbean. less