Investigator:
Cheryl Finley, Art History
Collaborators:
Katherine Reagan, Cornell University Library
Collection Type:
Arts & Sciences
Year:
2012
View the Loewentheil Collection of African-American Photographs
This collection of African-American photographs stands to make a major impact on the study of African American visual culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as they reveal volumes about black life and struggles in uncommonly rare photographs. Through digitization this resource will be widely available to scholars of African American Studies, Art History, American Studies and the History of Photography. These materials complement already existing Cornell collections, including the May Anti-Slavery, Hip Hop, Noyes and Rudin materials.