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African Americans -- Pictorial works

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Edith Shaw family and Provident Hospital photo album

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-ShawE
Abstract Photograph album of Chicago nurse Edith A. Shaw (1910-1993), an African American woman who resided on the South Side of Chicago. Shaw graduated from Provident Hospital's nursing student program in 1932. Photographs in the album include her family, her friends and fellow students, nurses and doctors, and some photos taken in and outside of the hospital. Also includes a lot of candid photography at the beach and with friends, along with some formal portraits of her family and from her sister...
Dates: approximately 1923-1943

Helen Balfour Morrison photographs of Kentucky African American communities

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morrison-KY
Abstract

Prints and negatives by Helen Balfour Morrison from her multiple trips to African American communities in Kentucky during the 1930s and 1940s.

Dates: 1935-1946