Portraits of outstanding Americans of Negro origin / painted by two women artists, Laura Wheeler Waring [and] Betsy Graves Reyneau.

Artist
Waring, Laura Wheeler, 1887-1948 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York, NY ; Harmon Foundation [194-?]
Description
24 portrait on 23 leaves ; 33 x 27 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Artist
Related name
Notes
In envelope.
Contents
  • Portraits by Betsey Graves Reyneau: Edward Lee, gardener
  • American youth, Private
  • United States Army; William Campbell, Captain
  • 99th Pursuit Squadron; Jane M. Bolin, Justice of the Domestic Relations Court of the City of New York; John Andrew Kenney, Surgeon; First editor, Journal of the National Medical Association; Monroe Nathan Work, publicist and analyst; Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, International President Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Charles Richard Drew, surgeon, pioneer in blood plasma; Channing H. Tobias, religious and social leader; Hon. William Henry Hastie, jurist, educator; Mary McLeod Bethune, Founder, Bethune-Cookman College; Director, Division of Negro Affairs, National Youth Administration; President, National Council of Negro Women; Eugene Kinckle Jones, pioneer in social work among Negroes; Mordecai W. Johnson, President, Howard University; Alain LeRoy Locke, Rhodes scholar
  • art and literary, critic, philosopher; Helen A. Whiting, specialist in elementary and rural education; Charles Hamilton Houston, lawyer.
  • Portraits by Laura Wheeler Waring: Harry T. Burleigh, composer
  • baritone; William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, editor, writer, teacher, interpreter of race relations; Marian Anderson, contralto; George Edmund Haynes, Secretary of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; James Weldon Johnson, author, poet, diplomat, education; George Washington Carver, scientist; Jessie Redmon Fauset, author
  • Includes portraits of Betsey Graves Reyneau and Laura Wheeler Waring.
LCCN
46039052
OCLC
8671197
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