May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 244

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(EDUCATION.) Scurlock, Addison; photographer. Ninth Meeting of the Collegiate Deans and Registrars in Negro Schools, Howard University. Panoramic photograph, 9 x 30 1/2 inches to sight; several vertical creases near right edge, otherwise light creasing and wear. Not examined out of frame. Washington, DC, 28 March 1935

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Among the notables on the speaking program were historian Carter Woodson and Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first African-American woman to serve as dean of women at an American college. The shot was taken by Addison Scurlock (1883-1964), the renowned African-American portrait photographer.