(BUSINESS) Photographs of Harlem physician and business lead

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(BUSINESS.) Photographs of Harlem physician and business leader Clilan B. Powell. 7 photographs, each about 8 x 10 inches, some with newspaper markings and captions on verso; minor wear. Various places, 1944-1960 and undated

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Clilan Bethany Powell (1894-1977) graduated from the Howard School of Medicine in 1920. He later became co-owner of Harlem's Amsterdam News in 1936, was a founder and president of Victory Mutual Life Insurance Company, and was active in national presidential campaigns. These photographs document some of his public appearances with Eugene H. Dibble Jr., Louis T. Wright, Emil Laclerio, Kenneth B. Clark, Ralph Bunche, and others. In one (illustrated), he is shown chatting with Ambassador W. M. Q. Halm of Ghana at a Washington dinner for Negro businessmen. Two of the photos bear the inked stamps of P.H. Polk of the Tuskegee Institute.

With--a letter to Powell, 10 x 9½ inches, regarding his selection to the Mayor's Committee for the Commemoration of the Golden Anniversary of the City of New York, 3 February 1948.