Philadelphia African Americans : color, class and style, 1840-1940 ; an exhibition in the Museum of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, July 4-July 9, 1988.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.

Contributor:

Stern, Gail F., curator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Exhibitions.

African Americans.

African Americans--Social life and customs--Exhibitions.

African Americans--Economic conditions--Exhibitions.

Social classes--United States--Exhibitions.

Social classes.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

African Americans--Social life and customs.

United States.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, 102 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Philadelphia African Americans: color, class & style

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, [1988]

Contents:

Introduction / by Bette Ann Davis Lawrence

Documenting Family History / by Gail F. Stern

Philadelphia African Americans: A Likeness Preserved / by Deborah Willis

Afro-American Urban Culture and Intellectualism, 1840-1940: An Avenue for Self-Discovery in a Divided Society / by David McBride.

Notes:

"This exhibition is funded through the generous support of the William Penn Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Samuel S. Fels Fund."

"Design: Joan Guerin."

"Gail F. Stern, Bette Ann D. Lawrence, Co-Curators."--Page 3.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 21 and 39).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0937437034

OCLC:

17832606