Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 318

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Mosely, John W. Fourth Biennial Convention of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Sept. 17-22, 1944. Cleveland, Ohio. Group photograph, 10 1/2x13 1/2 inches, signed in the negative.

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John W. Mosley (1907-1969) was a noted Philadelphia photographer. His work began to appear in magazines and newspapers in the northeast in the late 1930's. See Charles Blockson's monograph The Journey of John W. Mosley, an African-American Pictorial Album (Philadelphia, 1992).