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| Ralph Ellison, Family, Associates, and Events, 1890-1996 | |||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601 (F) (H) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: ca. 4,380 items : chiefly black and white photographs and contact sheets. | |||||||||||||
| Photographs and contact sheets show Ralph Ellison, his wife Fanny Ellison, their family, associates, and events. The primarily black and white photographs depict portraits, snapshots of domestic life, travel, Ellison's studies at Tuskegee Institute (now University), New York City, public events, professional activities, as well as Ellison's home and personal art collection. | |||||||||||||
| Materials are organized by category: portraits, subjects and themes, snapshots, and contact sheets. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 1 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 1 to 78 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 78 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 2 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 79 to 99 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 21 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 3 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 100 to 113 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 14 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 4 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 114 to 123 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 10 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 5 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 124 to 135 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 12 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 6 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 136 to 159 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 24 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographers include Bob Adelman, Jon Atkins, Sevedra Barnum, Chris Corpus, and Nancy Crampton. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 7 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 160 to 177 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 18 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographers include Fanny Ellison, David Gahr, Bernard Gotfryd, and Chester Higgins. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 8 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 178 to 199 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 22 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographers include Pan-American Photo Service, Layle Silbert, Edward Wilson, and Richard Wright. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 9 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 200 to 219 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 20 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographers include Gordon Parks, Bern Schwartz, and Harold Strauss. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 10 | Portraits of Fanny Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 220 to 313 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 94 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 11 | Portraits of Fanny Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 314 to 333 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 20 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 12 | Portraits of Fanny Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 334 to 344 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 11 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 13 | Portraits of Fanny Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 345 to 356 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 12 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 14 | Portraits of Fanny Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 357 to 382 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 26 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographers include David Gahr. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 15 | Portraits of Fanny Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 383 to 396 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 14 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 1 FOLDER 16 | Portraits of Ralph and Fanny Ellison | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 397 to 428 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 32 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographers include David Gahr and Chester Higgins. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 1 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison Family Members | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 429 to 431 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 3 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Alfred Lewis Ellison, Lewis Alfred Ellison, and Eddie Ellison. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 2 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison Family Members | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 432 to 441 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 10 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Herbert Ellison and family, James Ellison, and Robert H. Ellison. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 3 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison Family Members | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 442 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 item : black and white photograph on frame. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photograph shows Lucretia "Creesy" "Aunt Teat" Brown as well as her children and their spouses: Frances Brown Davis, Otella Brown, Maybell Dewitt, John Dewitt. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 4 | Portraits of Ralph Ellison Family Members | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 443 to 447 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 5 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Annie Millsap and Ida "Brownie" Millsap. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 5 | Portraits of Fanny Ellison Family Members | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 448 to 471 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 24 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Willie Mae Brock, George Warren, Eliza Waugh, Ada Worix Warren, Priscilla Landers Warren, and Fanny's parents with Ralph Ellison. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 6 | Portraits of Family Members | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 472 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 item : black and white photograph on metal badge. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 7 | Portraits of Friends and Associates | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 473 to 510 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 38 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Charles Alston, Callye Arter and Anne Arter, and Sonora Babb. Includes Sonora Babb and Ralph Ellison in Central Park, ca. 1939-1943. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 8 | Portraits of Friends and Associates | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 511 to 536 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 26 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Lewis T. B [Bowen] or [Bronon], Arthur Boune, Ligon Buford, Ligon Buford's mother, Virgil Branam, Miss Clark, and B. [Engle] or [Beng.]. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 9 | Portraits of Friends and Associates | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 537 to 552 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 16 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Albert Erskine Jr., Joe Franklin and Jerry Hooks, and Ida Guggenheimer. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 10 | Portraits of Friends and Associates | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 553 to 587 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 35 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Chester and Jean Himes, Mrs. Howard, Langston Hughes, and Stanley Edgar Hyman. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 11 | Portraits of Friends and Associates | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 588 to 605 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 18 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show James Weldon Johnson, James Earl Jones, Ted Kennedy, Joe Louis and Marva Louis, Sam and Augusta Mann, Robert (nephew of Augusta and Sam Mann), Albert Murray, and Mozelle Murray. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 12 | Portraits of Friends and Associates | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 606 to 618 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 13 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Arnold Newman, Rosie Poindexter, Mrs. L. [Louis] P. Richie, Lizzie Sanders, Charles Sebree, Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, and Bea (Beatrice) Steegmuller. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 13 | Portraits of Friends and Associates | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 619 to 637 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 19 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Frank Taylor, Jacques Villon, and Doctor Frederic Wertham. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 14 | Portraits of Friends and Associates | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 638 to 651 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 14 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Walter B. Williams, Richard Wright, Gert Wollheim, Agnes Parker, Bert, Edmund, Emily, and Jim. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 2 FOLDER 15 | Portraits of Friends and Associates | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 652 to 655 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 4 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs show Lola, Mary, Robert, and Sezan | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 1 | Portraits of Friends and Associates | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 656 to 678 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 23 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
| Note: Photographs primarily show children and families. | |||||||||||||
| BOX 3 FOLDER 2 | Portraits of Friends and Associates | ||||||||||||
| Call Number: LOT 15601, no. 679 to 703 (F) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 25 items : black and white photographs. | |||||||||||||
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