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Lafargue Clinic photograph collection

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Description
Collection mainly depicts the patients, staff, clinic sessions and activities at the Lafargue Clinic, that was located in the basement of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, in Harlem, New York City, during the late 1940s through the 1950s. The collection consists of individual portraits of clinic director Fredric Wertham and Dr. Hilde L. Mosse; group portraits of Wertham with others, including St. Philip's rector Shelton Hale Bishop; individual portraits of young patients; and views, that sometimes include Wertham, Mosse or Bishop, of staff meetings, individual and group interviews with young patients, observation of children playing with blocks, children checking out books from the clinic library, children playing with puppets, and a child writing. Also depicted are an outdoor staff party; a group of children standing beside an outdoor Christmas tree; and Wertham examining a rack of comic books bearing sensational titles.
Names
Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.) (Originator)
Black Star (Picture agency)
Graphic House (New York, N.Y.)
Larsen, Lisa, 1925-1959 (Photographer)
Saunders, Richard, 1922-1987 (Photographer)
Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1946 - 1958 (Questionable)
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Lafargue Clinic Collection
Topics
Wertham, Fredric, 1895-1981
Bishop, Shelton Hale, 1889-1962
Mosse, Hilde L.
Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.)
Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.) -- Employees
Psychiatric clinics -- New York (State) -- New York
Community mental health services -- New York (State) -- New York
Interviewing in psychiatry
African Americans -- Health and welfare -- 1940-1959
African American children -- Services for -- New York (State) -- New York
Meetings -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1940-1959
Genres
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Portraits
Photographs
Notes
Content: Title devised by cataloger.
Content: Some photographs bear photographer's handstamp on verso. Some items bear handwritten captions on verso; some items bear inscriptions on recto. One item is mounted. Some items are duplicates.
Content: Collection contains work by Lisa Larsen and Richard Saunders.
Biographical/historical: Low cost psychiatric clinic established in 1946 in Harlem.
Content: Forms part of the Lafargue Clinic Records.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 30 items (.3 cu. ft., 1 box)
Extent: 30 photographic prints : silver gelatin, black & white ; 35 x 28 cm. or smaller
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG087000345-F
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11527508
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9e1d0b60-294b-013a-8fa7-0242ac110004
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