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Vernon "Dr. Daddy-O" Winslow collection
Collection
Identifier: 525
Content Description
Vernon Winslow was an art professor at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a disc jockey at WJMR, WYLD, WMRY, WWEZ and WJBW. He is credited as being New Orleans' first African American disc jockey and served as a spokesman for Jax Beer under the moniker "Dr. Daddy-O." This collection consists of a variety of sound recordings in various formats. There are 68 reels of ¼” audio tapes of varying lengths. These recordings seem to be live recordings, music and church recordings. Some...
Dates:
Other: 1920s-1960s
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Amistad Research Center
Thomas H. Wirth photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: 767
Content Description
The Thomas H. Wirth photograph collection is comprised of photographs, slides and negatives documenting the Black experience taken by Wirth mostly during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The majority of the photographs were taken during Wirth’s tenure as a faculty member at historically black colleges and universities in South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi, with some additional photographs taken in Atlanta, Georgia, and Berkeley, California. Individuals and landscapes of West Point,...
Dates:
Other: 1950s-2001
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Estemore Alvis Wolfe papers
Collection
Identifier: 394
Content Description
The papers of Detroit educator and businessman Estemore Alvis Wolfe document his work both in Detroit, Michigan, and in Jackson, Mississippi. He was vice president and secretary of the Wright Mutual Insurance Company, which he co-founded; president of the Detroit chapter of Friends of Amistad; and president of the National Alumni Association of Jackson State University, and president of its Detroit chapter. His papers contain biographical and genealogical materials, as well as materials...
Dates:
Other: 1929-1982
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Stevie Wonder recordings
Collection
Identifier: 2231
Content Description
Two sound recordings of Stevie Wonder. One is of a high school Christmas pageant in Lansing, Michigan; the second recording is of a speech Wonder delivered before the United Nations.
Dates:
1988
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Hale Woodruff letters
Collection
Identifier: 2469
Scope and Contents
The Hale Woodruff letters consist of 30 handscript letters, dating from 1973 to 1978, from African American artist Hale Woodruff to his former student Mary Parks Washington. In 1973, Washington wrote to Woodruff to request one of his prints; their correspondence developed over the next five years into a a business relationship, with Washington acting as Woodruff's West Coast agent for sales of his prints. Much of the correspondence concerns the sale of Woodruff's prints and Washington's role...
Dates:
Created: 1973-1978; Other: Date acquired: 08/07/1991
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Hale Woodruff papers
Collection
Identifier: 395
Scope and Contents
The papers of Hale A. Woodruff document Woodruff's life and career as an artist, educator, and art collector. The collection includes correspondence, invitations, writings by and about Woodruff, photographs, greeting cards with art by Woodruff, and collected items. Correspondence includes incoming and outgoing letters filed in chronological order, dated from 1927 to 1985. Posthumous letters are mostly from or to his wife, Theresa. A small portion of the correspondence is with Woodruff's...
Dates:
Created: 1865-1985
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Theresa A. Woodruff papers
Collection
Identifier: 711
Abstract
The Theresa A. Woodruff papers document to limited degrees the social life of Woodruff late in her life, as well as the career of her husband, African American artist Hale Woodruff.
Dates:
Created: 1938-1988; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Annie Wooten photograph
Collection
Identifier: 2519
Content Description
This collection contains a single real photo postcard, circa 1920s, of a young African American woman named Annie Wooten. Wooten was a maid in the household of Dalvis and Olevia De Ville and likely lived in the area of Kelly or Monroe, Louisiana. She is holding a fan, which appears to read "J.P. Duke, Kelly Louisiana."
Dates:
Other: circa 1920s
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Ernest J. Wright collection
Collection
Identifier: 772
Content Description
This collection pertaining to New Orleans activist Ernest J. Wright documents his work in the area of labor unionism and civil rights issues, particularly voter registration during the 1930s through the 1970s. Materials include correspondence, publications and printed ephemera, news clippings and photocopies of photographs. The correspondence is small, numbering only four letters from 1955 to 1973. The earliest letter is an inivitation to John G. Lewis to speak at a Peoples Defense League...
Dates:
Other: 1933-1979
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Jay and Mary Wright collection
Collection
Identifier: 629-1
Content Description
This collection consists primarily of photocopied material on Trinity School in Athens, Alabama. Included are copies of the school publication, titled variously Trinity Newspaper and Campus Chronicle, from 1940 and 1943. Also included are the memoirs of Jay Wright, who, with Mary, was an educator who taught at Trinity School.
Other materials include clippings, photographs, and correspondence of historian C. Eric Lincoln, who was an alumnus of Trinity School.
Dates:
Other: 1940-2000
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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