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Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection : production stills

Title

Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection : production stills [graphic].

Published by

[189-?]-[199-]

Author

Johnson, Helen A.

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Found in

p1kc Johnson, Helen A. Helen Armstead-Johnson theater collection: main record, 189-?-199- (CStRLIN)NYPG00-F335.

Description

844 items (4 lin. ft., 1 record carton, 1 box); 36 x 27 cm. and smaller.

Summary

The Production stills series consists of scenes from motion picture, television and theater productions (189?-198?) featuring African-American actors in a variety of roles, as part of all-black casts as well as mixed race casts.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Blacks on Stage: African-American Theater Arts Collections Project.

Alternative title

Ain't misbehavin'.
All the king's men.
Amazing grace (Motion picture)
America, be seated.
Anna Lucasta.
Black nativity.
Carmen Jones (Motion picture)
Chocolate dandies.
Coffy (Motion picture)
Dreamgirls.
Emperor Jones.
Eubie.
For colored girls who have consider suicide/When the rainbow is enuf.
Four saints in three acts.
Foxy Brown (Motion picture)
God's trompone.
The great white hope.
The great white hope (motion picture)
The greatest (Motion picture)
The green pastures.
Hallelujah baby.
Hello Dolly.
Home.
Hot mikado.
In Dahomey.
In the wine time.
It's so nice to be civilized.
Joanna (Motion picture)
John Henry.
The Little Colonel (Motion picture)
Lying lips (Motion picture)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Mahogany (Motion picture)
The member of the wedding.
Mulatto.
Othello.
Othello in Harlem (Motion picture)
The oysterman.
Porgy.
Porgy and Bess.
Plantaton Revue.
A raisin in the sun.
Rang Tang.
The red moon.
Run little chillun.
Runnin' Wild.
Secret sorrow (Motion picture)
Show boat.
Shuffle along.
Some kind of herd (Motion picture)
Sugar hill.
Tan town topics.
Timbuktu.
Trumpets of the lord.
Trooper of Troop K.
Twelfth night.
Uncle Remus at the races.
Uncle Tom's cabin (Motion picture)
The Wisteria trees.
The Wiz.
The Wiz (Motion picture)

Subject

Call number

Sc Photo Helen Armstead-Johnson Photograph Collection (Production stills)

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Some photographs bear photographer's or photography studio's handstamp or blind stamp on verso or recto. Some items are signed or printed in the negative. Some items have handwritten notations on verso. Some images have captions printed on recto. Some items are duplicates. Some photographs are damaged and/or deteriorating.
Collection includes works by Bert Andrews, Elcha, Woodard's Studio, Scurlock Studio and others.

Terms of use (note)

Restricted: Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication; no photocopying of original prints.

Source (note)

Helen Armstead-Johnson;

Biography (note)

The Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection was assembled by English professor Helen Armstead-Johnson, beginning in the 1960s, during the course of her research into the contributions of African-Americans to the American stage.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

Finding aid available

Linking entry (note)

Forms part of the Helen Armstead-Johnson Photograph Collection, 189-?-199-.
Forms part of the Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection, 1818-1993.

Author

Johnson, Helen A. Collector

Title

Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection : production stills [graphic].

Imprint

[189-?]-[199-]

Terms of use

Restricted: Permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication; no photocopying of original prints.

Biography

The Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection was assembled by English professor Helen Armstead-Johnson, beginning in the 1960s, during the course of her research into the contributions of African-Americans to the American stage. The collection consists of over 15,000 photographs, prints, postcards and transparencies that document African-American entertainers in various areas of the performing arts.

Indexes

Finding aid available : folder level control.

Linking entry

Forms part of the Helen Armstead-Johnson Photograph Collection, 189-?-199-.
Forms part of the Helen Armstead-Johnson Theater Collection, 1818-1993.

Local note

Sc Photo Helen Armstead-Johnson Photograph Collection
Sc MG 599

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Local subject

Black arts movement.

Added author

Andrews, Bert. Photographer
Caldwell, Jim. Photographer
Karger, Jiří. Photographer
Reed, John E. Photographer
Smith, Vernon L. Photographer
Swope, Martha. Photographer
Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.)
Bloom (Chicago, Ill.)
Elcha (New York, N.Y.)
Friedman-Abeles (New York, N.Y.)
Lucas & Monroe Studio (New York, N.Y.)
Lucas-Pritchard.
Reeves Studios (Atlanta, Ga.)
Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)
Vandamm Studio (New York, N.Y.)
Wadsworth Athenium (Hartford, Ct.)
White Studio (New York, N.Y.)

Added title

Ain't misbehavin'.
All the king's men.
Amazing grace (Motion picture)
America, be seated.
Anna Lucasta.
Black nativity.
Carmen Jones (Motion picture)
Chocolate dandies.
Coffy (Motion picture)
Dreamgirls.
Emperor Jones.
Eubie.
For colored girls who have consider suicide/When the rainbow is enuf.
Four saints in three acts.
Foxy Brown (Motion picture)
God's trompone.
The great white hope.
The great white hope (motion picture)
The greatest (Motion picture)
The green pastures.
Hallelujah baby.
Hello Dolly.
Home.
Hot mikado.
In Dahomey.
In the wine time.
It's so nice to be civilized.
Joanna (Motion picture)
John Henry.
The Little Colonel (Motion picture)
Lying lips (Motion picture)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Mahogany (Motion picture)
The member of the wedding.
Mulatto.
Othello.
Othello in Harlem (Motion picture)
The oysterman.
Porgy.
Porgy and Bess.
Plantaton Revue.
A raisin in the sun.
Rang Tang.
The red moon.
Run little chillun.
Runnin' Wild.
Secret sorrow (Motion picture)
Show boat.
Shuffle along.
Some kind of herd (Motion picture)
Sugar hill.
Tan town topics.
Timbuktu.
Trumpets of the lord.
Trooper of Troop K.
Twelfth night.
Uncle Remus at the races.
Uncle Tom's cabin (Motion picture)
The Wisteria trees.
The Wiz.
The Wiz (Motion picture)

Found in:

p1kc Johnson, Helen A. Helen Armstead-Johnson theater collection: main record, 189-?-199- (CStRLIN)NYPG00-F335.

Research call number

Sc Photo Helen Armstead-Johnson Photograph Collection (Production stills)

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