LC control no. | n 87109377 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | McNeill, Robert H. |
Associated country | United States |
Birth date | 1917 |
Death date | 20050527 |
Place of birth | Washington (D.C.) |
Place of death | Washington (D.C.) |
Affiliation | New York Institute of Photography McNeill News Service |
Profession or occupation | Soldiers Photographers |
Found in | nuc87-64959: His Ministates and the United ... 1970 (hdg. on ViU-L rept.: McNeill, Robert H.; usage: Robert H. McNeill, II) African American National Biography, accessed February 24, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (McNeill, Robert H.; photographer, soldier; born in 1917 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; enrolled in the New York Institute of Photography; regular feature photographer for Flash! and for the Washington, DC, office of Otto McClarrin's News Pic magazine; traveled to Virginia to collect information for The Negro in Virginia, photographing African American life and farm laborers after the Great Depression; launched the McNeill News Service, conducting Fotocraft workshops on photography and darkroom; one of four photo studios was featured in Visual Journal: Harlem and D.C. in the thirties and forties, developed by the Smithsonian's Center for African American History and Culture (1996); was honored by the Exposure Group African American Photographers Association with its Maurice Sorrell Lifetime Achievement Award (1998); died 27 May 2005 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States) |