A printing plate of an unidentified woman. The woman is featured from the chest up and is wearing a top with a sweet-heart neckline. Her hair is pulled up in an updo and she is looking towards the left side of the plate. The back of the plate has a faded…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.37
A printing plate of vocalist and band leader Anna Mae Winburn featured in the Chicago Defender article from December 9, 1950. Winburn is featured with her arms raised. She is wearing a dress. The upper left of the printing plate has deteriorated. The back…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.42
A printing plate of Harold Martin used by the Chicago Defender. Martin is featured sitting behind his post exchanged officer desk at Tuskegee. He is dressed in his military uniform and is show from the waist up. He looks straight at the camera. There are…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.31
A printing plate of Harry B. Deas and James E. McSweeney. The two men are raising their hands, as Secretary of the Chicago Police Department McSweeney (right) administers the oath of office to Deas (left) as he becomes a Captain in the Chicago Police…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.81
A printing plate of Chicago policeman Captain Harry Deas and Washington DC policeman Oliver Cowan used by the Chicago Defender. Deas is featured on the left side of the printing plate. He is dressed in his full uniform and looks down at a paper that Cowan…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.35
A printing plate of Charles E. Duster and Matthew Holden, Jr. used by the Chicago Defender. The plate shows Duster and Holden, students at Wendell Phillips High School, interviewing President Truman during Chicago's Army Day celebration. Duster is looking…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.25
A printing plate of Claire Jay featured in an article for the Chicago Defender on March 30, 1946. The plate features an image of Jay. The image is taken from overhead. Jay looks up towards the camera and has her hand resting on her chest. The back of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.43
A printing plate of Claire Margaret Jones from used by the Chicago Defender. She is featured from the chest up and looks towards the camera with a smile. The back of the plate has an inscription that reads [Claire Margaret Jones / Women's Page].
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.34
A printing plate of Dinah Shore featured in an article for the Chicago Defender on June 11, 1958. The plate features an image of Shore who is posed looking towards the left of the plate. She is wearing a dress and has her arms posed downward at her sides.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.44
A printing plate of Elaine Sherrill used by the Chicago Defender. The plate features Sherrill from the waist up. Her body faces the proper right side of the plate, and her head is turned towards the camera looking towards the proper left side of the plate.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.32
This image of Henry Scott is featured in the article "Deep are the Roots' Blots Few Prejudices its Star Once Had" from The Chicago Defender on April 20, 1946. The article talks about the play, "Deep Are the Roots", and the lead actors, including one of the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.28
Printing plate of singer Ivie Anderson that was featured in a Chicago Defender article in 1935. The plate features an image of Anderson from the chest up. She is featured wearing a light-colored dress and is looking off to her proper right side. The back…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.19
Printing plate of Jacqueline Le Protti featured an article for the Chicago Defender. Le Protti is shown wearing a nurse uniform, for her graduation from the University of California School of Nursing where she received the "Florence Nightingale Award" in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.16
A printing plate of businesswoman and beauty parlor owner Lavinia Wright used by the Chicago Defender. Wright is featured from the shoulders up. She looks directly at the camera and is wearing a dark colored top with a broach at center. Her hair is pulled…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.39
Printing plate of Leontyne Price singing in front of a CBS radio microphone. There is significant loss of the image around her face, possibly from surface abrasion. The plate is irregular, the top right corner having been cut away or otherwise removed.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.23
A printing plate with an image of Marian Anderson. The plate is rectangular in shape, portrait orientation. The reverse is tan with a red logo printed and repeated (circle with cartoon figure wearing a top hat in the center with [MADE IN U.S.A. / REG.U.S.…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.49
A printing plate of Michael Mulcahy. Mulcahy, the sheriff of Cook County, is featured from the chest up and is featured wearing a suit jacket, collared shirt, and tie. He is looking directly at the photographer. The back of the printing plate has an…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.26
A printing plate of Mildred Smith and Alfred Drake. Smith is featured on the left side wearing a light-colored jacket. Drake is on the right side leaning his head on Smith's shoulder. The two actors were promoting the Broadway show Beggar's Holiday. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.21
A printing plate of Mildred Smith (right) and Alfred Drake (left) acting in the Duke Ellington and John La Touche production of "Beggar's Holiday." Smith is featured sitting holding a match in her proper left hand up to a cigarette in Drake's mouth. Drake…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.88
A printing plate of radio writer Norman Corwin that was featured in the Chicago Defender in 1945. The image shows Corwin sitting in front of a typewriter. His proper left hand is on the typewriter, while his proper right hand holds a pipe to his mouth. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.20
A printing plate of Portia Oliver featured in a Chicago Defender article from October 13, 1945. Oliver is pictured sitting down with her proper left side parallel to the image. Her head is turned toward the camera and her proper right arm is draped over a…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.18.5.46
