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Black portrait photograph collection

 Collection
Identifier: GRA 0140
Abstract

The Black portrait photograph collection contains portraits of Black individuals and groups, collected from various sources by the University of Delaware Library. The photographers, sitters, and settings of these photographs are unidentified, unless otherwise noted.

Dates: circa 1860-1920s

Robert C. Carter photograph album of the St. Francis Dam disaster site

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0093-Item 0171
Abstract

This photograph album, which belonged to Robert C. Carter, contains thirty-one black-and-white photographs of the site of the St. Francis Dam disaster in the San Francisquito Canyon, near Los Angeles, California. The photographs were taken in 1928, shortly after the dam's failure. Several pictures contain young Carter and his family posing together or traversing the rocky site.

Dates: 1928