BROTHERHOOD OF SLEEPING CAR PORTERS PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION, ca. 1940-1969

Box Lot: 2 boxes (1 8 x 10 in.; 1 16 x 20 in.)

Accession Number: G1988.0081

Description of the collection:

Primarily includes group portraits taken at conferences and meetings of the BSCP

labor union. Scenes from the Chicago division offices show an African American

staff at work. Includes small formal identified portraits of key Chicago members,

a few unidentified portraits, and informal photographs of unidentified convention

speakers. Several photographs depict a testimonial dinner for founder A. Philip

Randolph. Also includes a few group portraits at events sponsored by BSCP's

International Ladies Auxiliary, informal scenes at an unidentified election (for

BSCP officers?) and snapshots of an unidentified church. A single image shows

men before a billboard advertising BSCP war bond support in St. Louis during

World War II.

Related material is found in Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters photograph

collection (1980.0169). Both collections are gifts of the Chicago Division of

the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.

Container list:

Box 1

1 Banquets

2 Chicago Division Offices

3 Churches

4 Elections

5 Group portraits -- Formal

6 Group portraits -- Informal

7 Ladies Auxiliary Events?

8 Landscape

9 Meetings

10 Meetings -- Montreal, Que. -- 1962

11 Meetings -- Speakers

12 Portraits -- Identified

13 Portraits -- Unidentified

14 Randolph, A. Philip

Box 2

1 Banquets

2 Meetings

3 Portraits & group portraits

dir

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