Grace Mason / Atkinson photograph collection

Descriptive Summary

Title: Grace Mason / Atkinson photograph collection
Identifier: BMRC.HARSH.ATKINSON_PHOTO
Repository: Chicago Public Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection, Woodson Regional library
Language: English
Size: 3.0 Linear feet
Dates: 1880-1920
Creator: Henderson, Franklin Atkinson
Creator: Mason, Grace

Biographical note

Grace Mason, a descendant of pioneering Chicago African American photographer Franklin Atkinson Henderson, donated his collection of nearly 100 photo portraits of “prominent Negro Chicagoans.” Photos were created from 1885 to 1915. Many of these photos were exhibited at the 1940 American Negro Exposition.

Scope and Contents note

The papers include photos of the “Old Settlers” and an official register of the Chicago Old Settlers Club, founded by Ida McIntosh Dempsey in 1904. Later Scott family records and photographs are also included.

Related Archival Materials note

Hope Dunmore/Old Settlers Club Records -DuSable Museum of African American History Franklyn Atkinson Henderson Collection of Photographs of African American Old Settlers of Chicago - Chicago History Museum

Processing Information note

This collection was surveyed as part of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium's Survey Initiative on 2010 August 30 by Bergis Jules.

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