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Malay Boy of the Straits Settlement.

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Image ID

1216571


Item data

Title

Malay Boy of the Straits Settlement.

Collection

American civilization and the Negro: the Afro-American in relation to national progress.

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1916
Place: Philadelphia
Publisher: F.A. Davis Company

Library Location

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Shelf locator: Sc 323.173-R (Roman, C. V. American civilization and the Negro)

Subjects

African Americans -- Race relations -- United States
Boys
Beads
Straits Settlements
Malays (Asian people)
Ethnic costume

Genres

Photographs
Portraits
Illustrations

Languages

English

Identifiers

Barcode: 33433016414926
RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR6257051-B
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11589218
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 4b6ec8e0-c6da-012f-6818-3c075448cc4b

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1916

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MLA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Malay Boy of the Straits Settlement." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1916. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4b6ec8e0-c6da-012f-6818-3c075448cc4b

APA format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1916). Malay Boy of the Straits Settlement. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4b6ec8e0-c6da-012f-6818-3c075448cc4b

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Malay Boy of the Straits Settlement." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 16, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4b6ec8e0-c6da-012f-6818-3c075448cc4b

Wikipedia citation

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