Gordon Parks photographs
Scope and Contents
Gordon Parks's photographs appeared in the book J.T.by Jane Wagner.
Dates
- circa 1969
Creator
- Parks, Gordon, 1912-2006 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
Gordon Parks was born November 30, 1912 in Fort Scott, KS. He attended high schools in Minneapolis, MN. Parks was a published poet, filmmaker, novelist, composer, and photojournalist. His autobiographical film, The Learning Treeand his photographs in Lifeand Voguehelp "chronicle the mid-twentieth-century development of African-American consciousness." He died in 2006.
Biographical source:
"Gordon (Alexander Buchanan) Parks (1912-)." Something About the Author. Vol. 108. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2000.
Extent
3 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The collection contains photograph illustrations from one children's book.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Gordon Parks.
- Cats -- Juvenile fiction Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Children's literature, American Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Children's stories, American Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- City and town life -- Juvenile fiction Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Juvenile fiction Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Illustration of books -- 20th century Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographers Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Title
- Gordon Parks Photographs, circa 1969
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Lois Steer, November 2004
- Date
- 11/15/04
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- January 2022: Description updated by Caitlin Marineau.
Collecting Area Details
Contact The Children's Literature Research Collections Collecting Area
