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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Collection of work by Black Chicago photographer Dion Stams. Approximately 159 photographs, most approximately 8 x 10 inches and about 15 of them in smaller formats; many with the photographer's inked stamps on verso, a smaller number with inked date stamps, caption labels or manuscript captions; condition generally strong. Chicago and elsewhere, 1948-1950 and undated
Dion Alton Stams (1908-1998) spent his early years in Memphis, came to Chicago in the late 1930s, was active as a professional photographer from at least 1948 onward, and moved to Westdale, NY in the 1970s. He was also a collector, gathering what he dubbed the International Black Heritage Collection. The photographs in this collection mostly, though not exclusively, depict the Black community in the Chicago area: performances, businesses, fraternal societies, family events, fashion models, and formal portraits--including a portrait of the actress Janice Kingslow (illustrated).
