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LIBRA - Rare TR139 .M63 1986 Banks copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moutoussamy-Ashe, Jeanne, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American photographers--Biography.
- African American photographers.
- Women photographers--United States--Biography.
- Women photographers.
- United States.
- African American women photographers.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Penn Provenance:
- Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xix, 201 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986.
- Summary:
- A collection of diverse photographs from black female photographers from the mid-1800s to the present captures important aspects of African American history and reveals the talent and courage of a small band of pioneering artists.
- Contents:
- Mary E. Flenoy
- Elise Forrest Harleston
- Wilhelmina Pearl Selena Roberts
- Elnora Teal
- Winifred Hall Allen
- Johnnie Mae Bomar
- Alberta H. Brown
- Billie Louise Barbour Davis
- Emma Alice Downs
- Camer Girls
- Ann Elizabeth Jackson
- Vera Jackson
- Dora Miller
- Eslanda Cardoza Goode Robeson
- Elizabeth "Tex" Williams
- Joyce R. Wilson
- Ethel Worthington
- Mikki Ferrill
- Inge Hardison
- Master Sergeant Grendel A. Howard
- Louise Jefferson
- Louise Martin
- Phillda Ragland-Njau
- Adine Williams
- Michelle Agins
- Salimah Ali
- Cary Beth Cryor
- Lenore Davis
- Barbara DuMetz
- Julia Jones
- Fern Logan
- Akili-Casundria Ramsess
- Coreen Simpson
- Leah Ann Washington.
- Notes:
- "Copyright ©1986 by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe"--verso of title page.
- Designed by Claire B. Counihan--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-195) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
- ISBN:
- 0396086098
- 9780396086093
- 039608611X
- 9780396086116
- OCLC:
- 12419808
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