(LITERATURE) James L Allen photographer Early signed portrai

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(LITERATURE.) James L. Allen, photographer. Early signed portrait of Langston Hughes. Gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches, with photographer's embossed stamp on recto and inked stamp on verso; losses in margin of two corners, moderate wear and creasing, three skillfully repaired closed tears and other light conservation; signed and dated "Sincerely, Langston Hughes" in ink on recto and additionally signed on verso. New York, 10 November 1931

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Black photographer James Latimer Allen (1907-1977) was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. We trace no other examples of this portrait, although a very similar portrait from the same sitting is held in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale's Beinecke Library.