Mrs. Louia Vaughn Jones cellulose acetate photonegative

Object Details

GUID

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep834b018dc-50c5-4be9-a6dc-aacf44123398

Photographer

Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)

Names

Jones, Louia Vaughn, 1895-1965

Subseries Creator

Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)

Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994

Custom Craft

Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964

Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005

Place

Washington (D.C.) -- African Americans

Topic

African American women

Photographer

Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.)

Culture

African Americans -- Washington (D.C.)

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Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.1: Black-and-White Silver Gelatin Negatives

Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.1: Black-and-White Silver Gelatin Negatives / 4.1: Black-and-White Silver Gelatin negatives

Sponsor

The collection was acquired with assistance from the Eugene Meyer Foundation. Elihu and Susan Rose and the Save America's Treasures program, provided funds to stabilize, organize, store, and create digital surrogates of some of the negatives. Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Biographical / Historical

Mrs. Grace Alfreda (Lomax) Jones was an African-American woman and maternal grandmother of Edwina Young, who supplied the following biographical information: Born June 9, 1907 in Mobile, Alabama; parents Edward Anthony Lomax, a Tuskegee Instructor, and Annie Edmonia Gray. The family moved to Ohio when her father was recruited to design Chevrolet chassis for the Fisher Body Company. She had an older sister Melvina Anne Lomax. They both were "A" students in high school and were the first African-American women to attend Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, Ohio. On June 13,1931 in Cleveland she married Louia Vaughn Jones, famous concert violinist and music professor at Howard University. Grace "Bigmamma" was a social worker and mother of Grace Louise Jones Young, who also became a social worker, and The Honorable Renee Marie Jones Weeks. Mrs. Jones was born a Catholic and died in August 1969 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Extent

1 Item

Medium

Silver gelatin on cellulose acetate film sheet.

Container

Box 60

Archival Repository

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Type

Archival materials

Photographs

Subseries Citation

Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution

Subseries Rights

When the Museum purchased the collection from the Estate of Robert S. Scurlock, it obtained all rights, including copyright. The earliest photographs in the collection are in the public domain because their term of copyright has expired. The Archives Center will control copyright and the use of the collection for reproduction purposes, which will be handled in accordance with its standard reproduction policy guidelines. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Scan

Scan: AC0618.004.0000023.tif

Genre/Form

Photographs -- 1920-1940 -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film.

Scope and Contents

Job Number: 25167

Subseries Restrictions

Collection is open for research. Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view negatives due to cold storage. Using negatives requires a three hour waiting period. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270.

Record ID

ebl-1562600449806-1562600450072-6