Aida Overton Walker
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Item data
Title
Aida Overton Walker
Collection
Portrait collection
Aida Overton Walker portrait collection
Names
White Studio (New York, N.Y.) (Photographer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1911 (Approximate)
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Walker, Aida Overton
Subjects
Walker, Aida Overton, 1880-1914
African American women singers
Women dancers
African American women entertainers
Salome (Biblical figure)
Publicity photographs
Genres
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 20 x 13 cm ; black and white
Item is mounted.
Abstract
Portrait of singer and dancer Aida Overton Walker as Salome, circa 1911.
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16819138
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11527242
Photo Order: 53180
NYPL Exhibition ID: LPA 23.501.272
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d0525830-015e-0132-b9ab-58d385a7b928
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MLA format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Aida Overton Walker" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1911. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d0525830-015e-0132-b9ab-58d385a7b928
APA format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1911). Aida Overton Walker Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d0525830-015e-0132-b9ab-58d385a7b928
Chicago/Turabian Format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Aida Overton Walker" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 14, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/d0525830-015e-0132-b9ab-58d385a7b928
Wikipedia citation
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