Earl B. Dickerson photographs
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Earl B. Dickerson photographs
- Dates
- 1939-1985
- Identifier
- 1987.0310
- Creator
- Creator
- Dickerson, Earl B., 1891-1986
- Size
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17 photographic prints :
b&w ;8 x 10 in or smaller.
- Size
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2 photographic prints :
b&w ;13 1/4 x 8 in.
- Size
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7 photographic prints :
col. ; 3 x 5 in. or smaller.
- Language
- Material is in English unless otherwise noted.
Scope and Content
Includes photographs related to the career of Earl Burrus Dickerson, a Chicago area businessman, president of Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company, and politician. Dickerson is shown at banquets, at his desk, and with groups of men and women. Several photographs show Dickerson with Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall at a civil liberties program held at an Elks convention in 1954. Also includes a view of people assembled at the NAACP wartime conference, July 12-14, 1944. Color snapshots show Dickerson in Philadelphia at an unspecified regional conference (Nov. 1958) and at Howard University (1960).
Conditions for Access
Advance appointment required to view color material in cold storage.
Conditions Governing Use
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Preferred Citation
A common citation for archives is as follows: Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Collection title, ID number, Repository name, location.
Custodial History
Gift of Diane Montgomery, 1987 (1987.0310).
Indexed Terms
- Dickerson, Earl B. -- 1891-1986 -- Portraits
- Barnett, Claude -- 1889-1967 -- Portraits
- Gregory, Bernard -- Portraits
- Kelly, Edward J. -- (Edward Joseph) -- 1876-1950 -- Portraits
- Walker, Donald -- Portraits
- Marshall, Thurgood -- Portraits
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Elks Club
- Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company (Chicago, Ill.)
- African American lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago.
- Civil rights movements -- United States
- Men
- World War, 1939-1945 -- African Americans
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Businessmen
- Civil liberties
- Politicians -- Illinois -- Chicago
- United States -- Politics and government
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs
- Portrait photographs
- Photographic prints
- Gelatin silver prints