Black and white photographs
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Cross-dressing photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 492
Scope and Contents
One postcard showing a person identified as "Rex" in a dress and wig, next to them and sitting on a post is a person identified as Loren Nelson Omans. Both are posing in front of a house with trees in the background. On the verso is a canceled stamp dated "4 pm 1912 Detroit MI" and a note in pencil signed as "Love from Rex," the postcard is addressed to Mrs. J. O. Power of Addison, Mich. The postcard also contains an ink annotation: "Rex in dress, Nelson Omans on post." One black...
Dates:
approximately 1912-1920
Natal province missionary photograph album
Item
Identifier: MSS 518 small
Dates:
approximately 1931-1935
Segregation and desegregation efforts in Florida press photographs
Collection
Identifier: MSS 414 small
Scope and Contents
The collection of press photographs of desegregation and segregation efforts in Florida consists of photographs used in newspaper articles chronicling Civil Rights struggles between 1958 and 1964. The majority of the photographs depict attempts to desegregate public beaches and movie theaters in the city of St. Petersburg, as well as backlash against those attempts.
Dates:
1958-1964
World War II press photographs of Japanese Americans
Collection
Identifier: MSS 229 small
Scope and Contents
The press photos of Japanese Americans during World War II contains 14 photographs. The majority depict events related to the forced relocation of Japanese Americans during the war. Many were taken in San Francisco or Los Angeles, though locations in other parts of the United States are also represented.
Dates:
1942 - 1945