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Photo, Print, Drawing NAACP photographs of African American Army Air Force pilots, mechanics and officers at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama

About this Item

Title

  • NAACP photographs of African American Army Air Force pilots, mechanics and officers at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama

Summary

  • Emphasis is on training classes and activities for Tuskegee Army Flying School and portraits of officers, pilot trainees, cadets, and other personnel at Tuskegee. Includes five photos showing African American officers being held under arrest at Freemen Field, Indiana, for refusing to comply with segregation policies imposed by the base. Includes a few photos of women--the post librarian and "Miss Tuskegee Army Air Field."

Created / Published

  • 1941-1945.

Headings

  • -  United States.--Army Air Forces.--Fighter Squadron, 99th
  • -  United States.--Army Air Forces--People--1940-1950
  • -  World War, 1939-1945--Air operations--Alabama--Tuskegee Army Air Field
  • -  World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel--Alabama--Tuskegee
  • -  World War, 1939-1945--Military personnel--Indiana--Freeman Field
  • -  African Americans--Military service--1940-1950
  • -  Military air pilots--Alabama--Tuskegee Army Air Field--1940-1950
  • -  Demonstrations--Indiana--Freeman Field--1940-1950
  • -  Military education--Alabama--Tuskegee Army Air Field--1940-1950

Format Headings

  • Gelatin silver prints--1940-1950.
  • Group portraits--1940-1950.
  • Portrait photographs--1940-1950.

Genre

  • Portrait photographs--1940-1950
  • Group portraits--1940-1950
  • Gelatin silver prints--1940-1950

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Organized into three subject categories: General activities; Freeman Air Field mutiny; Individual and group portraits.
  • -  Collection finding aid available.
  • -  Images available on microfilm (including finding aid). Library of Congress Photoduplication Service.
  • -  Includes two press releases from the Office of Public Relations, Tuskegee Army Air Field on a training program and graduation exercises at the School. These are filed in the Prints and Photographs Division Supplementary Archives.
  • -  Most images bear original handwritten or typed identifications.
  • -  "Photographs by U.S. Army Air Corps" stamped on the verso of most photos.
  • -  Many images cropped or otherwise marked for publication.
  • -  Includes three prints made from an original NAACP negative (negative series LC-NA24) by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service in 1994.
  • -  Lot title devised.
  • -  Forms part of: Visual materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records (Library of Congress).

Medium

  • 41 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13104 (F) USE MICROFILM [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Visual materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People records (Library of Congress)

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 95517873

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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Rights & Access

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  • Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Visual Materials from the NAACP ...," http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/res/086_naa.html
  • Reproduction Number: ---
  • Call Number: LOT 13104 (F) USE MICROFILM [P&P]
  • Access Advisory: ---

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Chicago citation style:

NAACP photographs of African American Army Air Force pilots, mechanics and officers at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama. Tuskegee Indiana Tuskegee Army Air Field Freeman Field Alabama, 1941. to 1945. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/95517873/.

APA citation style:

(1941) NAACP photographs of African American Army Air Force pilots, mechanics and officers at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama. Tuskegee Indiana Tuskegee Army Air Field Freeman Field Alabama, 1941. to 1945. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/95517873/.

MLA citation style:

NAACP photographs of African American Army Air Force pilots, mechanics and officers at Tuskegee Army Air Field, Alabama. to 1945. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/95517873/>.