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Bob Adelman Photograph Archive, ca. 1950-2000, (bulk 1950-1980) (continued)
African American MCNY (continued)
Summary: Assembled group of select photographs of Black men, women, and children depicted in other groups of Adelman material such as NYC: Harlem, NYC: Bedstuy, Negro Life, and others.
See also Adelman Oversize (A size)
See also Adelman-Job 338
See also Adelman-Job 353
See also Adelman-Job 359
Box: 2, 3 Africatown
Call No.: Adelman-Job 8 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 623 items (Color Negatives, Color Slides, Color Transparencies, Contact Sheets, Photographic Prints)
Summary: Photographs show the descendants of the survivors of the slave ship Clotilda as well as other Africatown, Ala. residents and their community. Subjects include graveyards, pools, and Union Missionary Baptist Church. Also shows the demolition of structures and land being cleared.
Box: 3 Agrinde
Call No.: Adelman-Job 9 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 294 items (B&W Negatives, Contact Sheets, Photographic Prints )
Summary: Photographs show portraits of an unidentified man and family visiting Agrinde Publications trade show booth.
See also Adelman Oversize (A size)
Box: 3, 4, 5 Airstream
Call No.: Adelman-Job 10 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 2,741 items (Color Slides, Color Transparencies, Contact Sheets, Photographic Prints)
Summary: Photographs show scenes of the 1987 Wally Byam Caravan Club International (WBCCI) Airstream rally and its attendees near Rapid City, S.D.
Box: 5 Ali-Frazier Fight
Call No.: Adelman-Job 11 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 163 items (B&W Negatives, Contact Sheets, Photographic Prints)
Summary: Photographs show scenes from the 1971 Madison Square Garden boxing match between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Includes photos of an individual identified as "Silky" who appears in the related job titled Gentleman of Leisure.
See also Adelman-Job 197
Box: 5 Alisha Wedding
Call No.: Adelman-Job 12 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 99 items (B&W Negatives, Contact Sheets)
Box: 5 Alphabet
Call No.: Adelman-Job 13 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 76 items (B&W Negatives, Contact Sheets)
Summary: Photographs show an unidentified man posing as letters of the alphabet.
Box: 5 Altman, Carole
Call No.: Adelman-Job 14 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 50 items (B&W Negatives, Contact Sheets, Photographic Prints )
Summary: Photographs show portraits of sex therapist Carole Altman, Ph.D. in her home.
Box: 5 Amen Corner
Call No.: Adelman-Job 15 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 309 items (Color Slides)
Summary: Photographs show actress Rhetta Hughs in costume as Pastor Margaret Alexander from the 1983 Broadway musical titled Amen Corner.
Box: 5 American Artifacts
Call No.: Adelman-Job 16 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 0 items
See also Adelman Oversize (A size)
See also Adelman-Job 199
See also Adelman-Job 248
See also Adelman-Job 309
Box: 5 American Artists NYC, 1964, Esquire
Call No.: Adelman-Job 17 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 218 items (B&W Negatives, Color Slides, Color Transparencies, Photographic Prints)
Summary: Photographs taken for and published in article titled "The American Painter as a Blue Chip" for Esquire magazine in January 1965. Subjects depicted include Jackson Pollock burial site visit along with portraits of Dick Bellamy, Tom Wesselmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Jasper Johns, Marisol, Barnett Newman, Larry Rivers, and Mike Goldberg.
See also Adelman-Job 517
Box: 6 Americana
Call No.: Adelman-Job 18 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 1,777 items (Manuscripts, Other visual materials, Photographic Prints)
Summary: Photographs show selections of Adelman's work from the 1960s to the 1990s for a planned publication titled Americana. Includes publication layouts and manuscript titled "The Wrinkled Egg: A Portrait of Bob Adelman."
See also Adelman Oversize (A size)
See also Adelman Oversize (B size)
Box: 6, 7 Americana: Edits
Call No.: Adelman-Job 19 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 151 items (Color Slides, Manuscripts, Photographic Prints)
Summary: Photographs show selections of Adelman's work from the 1960s to the 1990s for a planned publication titled Americana. Also includes draft text materials for the book.
See also Adelman Oversize (A size)
Box: 6 Amnesia
Call No.: Adelman-Job 20 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 80 items (Color Slides, Photographic Prints)
Summary: Photographs show portraits of an elderly couple taken by Adelman and earlier photographs of their wedding by another photographer.
Box: 7 Archbishop Hickey
Call No.: Adelman-Job 21 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 960 items (B&W Negatives, Contact sheets, Photographic Prints)
Summary: Photographs show Archbishop James Aloysius Hickey, performing duties as the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., in 1985.
See also Adelman Oversize (A size)
Box: 7, 8 Arizona Indians
Call No.: Adelman-Job 22 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 855 items (B&W Negatives, Color Slides, Contact sheets, Photographic Prints)
Summary: Photographs show various American Indian communities living primarily in Arizona and the Southwestern United States taken for the federal Office of Economic Opportunity. The subjects primarily include members of the Akimel O'odham (also known as Pima) and White Mountain Apache tribes and the surrounding Whiteriver Arizona and Fort Apache Indian Reservation in Navajo County, Ariz.
See also Adelman Oversize (A size)
Box: 8 Artwork
Call No.: Adelman-Job 23 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 1 item (Photographic Print)
Box: 8 Atlantic City
Call No.: Adelman-Job 24 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 76 items (B&W Negatives, Contact Sheets)
Summary: Photographs show scenes of the Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, N.J.
Box: 8 Atlas, James
Call No.: Adelman-Job 25 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 233 items (B&W Negatives, Color Slides, Contact Sheets)
Summary: Photographs show portraits of biographical write and publisher James Atlas.
Box: 8 Auletta, Ken
Call No.: Adelman-Job 26 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 144 items (Color Slides)
Summary: Photographs show portraits of author and political columnist Ken Auletta.
Box: 8 Automobile (Times)
Call No.: Adelman-Job 27 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 128 items (Color Slides)
Summary: Photographs show auto show attendees examining various makes and models of cars.
Box: 8 Avenue Troopers
Call No.: Adelman-Job 28 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 105 items (B&W Negatives, Contact Sheets, Photographic Prints)
Summary: Photographs show a group of four formally dressed men in a private setting. Includes visual references to Squadron A, the historic cavalry unit of New York City's Upper East Side.
Box: 9, 10 B.B. King
Call No.: Adelman-Job 29 (FM -- F size)
Extent: 3,511 items (B&W Negatives, Color Negatives, Color Slides, Manuscripts, Photographic Prints)
Summary: Photographs show American musician B.B. King on and off stage, in professional and personal contexts including visiting his father's farm in Mississippi.
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