Mrs. Parle's daughter's piano recital acetate film photonegative

Container

Box 28

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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.

Photographer

Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964

Date

[ca. 1940]

Extent

1 Item

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.

Scan

Scan: 618ns0178815pc.tif

Type

Archival materials

Photographs

Retouching

Scope and Contents

Girl seated at grand piano. Heavy pencil retouching in face. No film edge imprint.

Genre/Form

Photographs -- 1930-1940 -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film

Retouching -- Pencil

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.

Medium

Silver gelatin on cellulose acetate film sheet, 8" x 10".

Condition

Acetate odor, slight cockling.

Photographer

Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964

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

Topic

Piano

Music -- Performance

Community life -- Washington, D.C. -- 1930-1940

Portraits, Group -- 1930-1940 -- Washington (D.C.).

African Americans -- Washington (D.C.)

African American pianists

Subseries Citation

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

Archival Repository

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Record ID

ebl-1562600449806-1562600449981-3

Usage

CC0