Photographic print of A.J. Smitherman, a book and the Tulsa Greenwood District
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Object Details
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- A.J. Smitherman, American, 1863 - 1961
- Description
- Black-and-white photographs, and a photomechanical copy of a photograph, adhered to a sheet of paper. The paper has the letterhead of The Petroleum Reporter. The paper has been folded in half to form four (4) sections. Each photograph has been affixed to one of the four sections. The top half of the recto side is printed with the letterhead, and no photographs are adhered to this section. The bottom half of the recto side has a photomechanical copy of a street view of the Greenwood District. On verso, there is a photograph of a man with glasses wearing a suit and bowtie, A.J. Smitherman, the Editor and Publisher of the Daily Tulsa Star at the time of the 1921Tulsa Race Massacre. Next to the Smitherman photograph is handwritten "Smitherman". On the other half of the same quadrant, the word "Franklin" is handwritten, next to an empty space without a photograph. On verso, the bottom half of the paper has a large photograph of the book "The Events of the Tulsa Disaster" by Mrs. Mary E. Jones Parrish.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Princetta R. Newman
- 1970-1980
- Object number
- 2014.75.131
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- photographs
- portraits
- Medium
- photographic gelatin and silver on photographic paper, and ink on paper, mounted to paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (full sheet): 8 1/2 × 11 in. (21.6 × 27.9 cm)
- H x W (photograph of Smitherman): 3 1/8 × 2 3/16 in. (8 × 5.5 cm)
- H x W (photograph of book): 6 11/16 × 4 15/16 in. (17 × 12.5 cm)
- H x W (photocopy of Greenwood District): 4 5/16 × 4 5/16 in. (11 × 11 cm)
- H x W (each quadrant): 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. (21.6 × 14 cm)
- Place depicted
- Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Collection title
- The Princetta R. Newman Collection of Family Photographs, Tulsa, Oklahoma
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- American South
- American West
- Communities
- Race riots
- Tulsa Race Massacre
- U.S. History, 1919-1933
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2014.75.131
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5fed42da6-1ab1-452e-b183-b43344bca037
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