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Items Sara Pelham Speaks, of New York, activities director of black women's groups for the Eastern Division of the Republican National Committee's Publicity Department, with Francis E. Rivers (right), Eastern Director of the Colored Division, and James R. White (center), National Director of Business, Trade and Industrial Publicity, in New York City, 1940. A photo montage of Republican presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie is in background.
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Sara Pelham Speaks, of New York, activities director of black women's groups for the Eastern Division of the Republican National Committee's Publicity Department, with Francis E. Rivers (right), Eastern Director of the Colored Division, and James R. White (center), National Director of Business, Trade and Industrial Publicity, in New York City, 1940. A photo montage of Republican presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie is in background.

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Sara Pelham Speaks, of New York, activities director of black women's groups for the Eastern Division of the Republican National Committee's Publicity Department, with Francis E. Rivers (right), Eastern Director of the Colored Division, and James R. White (center), National Director of Business, Trade and Industrial Publicity, in New York City, 1940. A photo montage of Republican presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie is in background.

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Sara Pelham Speaks, of New York, activities director of black women's groups for the Eastern Division of the Republican National Committee's Publicity Department, with Francis E. Rivers (right), Eastern Director of the Colored Division, and James R. White (center), National Director of Business, Trade and Industrial Publicity, in New York City, 1940. A photo montage of Republican presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie is in background.
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Date Created: 1940-09-09
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Organizations
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Organizations / Box 20
Topics
Speaks, Sara Pelham
Rivers, Francis E.
African American political activists
Political activists -- United States
African American lawyers
Political campaigns -- United States
Genres
Photographs
Notes
Content: Item bears press release on verso.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 26 x 21 cm ; black and white
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG97-F8
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13049844
Photo Order: 53365
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f58f87c0-2194-0132-bb90-58d385a7b928
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  • 1940: Created
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2021: Found by you!
  • 2022

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Sara Pelham Speaks, of New York, activities director of black women's groups for the Eastern Division of the Republican National Committee's Publicity Department, with Francis E. Rivers (right), Eastern Director of the Colored Division, and James R. White (center), National Director of Business, Trade and Industrial Publicity, in New York City, 1940. A photo montage of Republican presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie is in background." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1940. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/69ebca00-2198-0132-1304-58d385a7bbd0

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Sara Pelham Speaks, of New York, activities director of black women's groups for the Eastern Division of the Republican National Committee's Publicity Department, with Francis E. Rivers (right), Eastern Director of the Colored Division, and James R. White (center), National Director of Business, Trade and Industrial Publicity, in New York City, 1940. A photo montage of Republican presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie is in background." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 18, 2021. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/69ebca00-2198-0132-1304-58d385a7bbd0

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1940). Sara Pelham Speaks, of New York, activities director of black women's groups for the Eastern Division of the Republican National Committee's Publicity Department, with Francis E. Rivers (right), Eastern Director of the Colored Division, and James R. White (center), National Director of Business, Trade and Industrial Publicity, in New York City, 1940. A photo montage of Republican presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie is in background. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/69ebca00-2198-0132-1304-58d385a7bbd0

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Sara Pelham Speaks, of New York, activities director of black women's groups for the Eastern Division of the Republican National Committee's Publicity Department, with Francis E. Rivers (right), Eastern Director of the Colored Division, and James R. White (center), National Director of Business, Trade and Industrial Publicity, in New York City, 1940. A photo montage of Republican presidential candidate Wendell L. Willkie is in background.