Portrait photograph of civil rights leader Walter White.
New York: July 12, 1938.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
Published in PORTRAITS: the Photographs of Carl Van Vechten, (1978), edited by Saul Mauriber. Half-length portrait of the author seated with arms folded. 1 vols. 35.3 x 27.5 cm. (approximately 14 x 11 inches). Fine. Docketed in pencil on verso, giving the name of the sitter, the date of the session, and a reference to negative ("XL M 7").
Item #219121
Fine large portrait of Walter Francis White (1892-1955), executive director of the NAACP for nearly 25 years and one of the most important civil rights leaders of the 20th century.
