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Paul Henderson Photograph Collection Overview
Maryland Historical Society
Photograph Collection Inventory List
Special Collections Department
201 West Monument Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201
410-685-3750 x359; special_collections@mdhs.org
PAUL HENDERSON PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION
ca. 1940-1960
(BCLM, HEN)
Overview
Go to PDF Inventory Lists
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Paul Henderson photographs in Collections Online (click and scroll down)
See also: Paul Henderson Manuscript and Ephemera Collection, MS 3089
See also: Paul Henderson Photographs Blog (contains information about the exhibition, videos, and slideshows of unidentified photos)
Note: The original negatives within this collection are restricted from public use. Reference photographs for all negatives (6,000+) are available in the Special Collections Department of the library. For more information, please email the department.
History
One of eight children, Paul Henderson (1899-1988) was born in Springfield, Tennessee and trained as a photographer in Gary, Indiana at the School for Professional Photography. Henderson moved to Baltimore in 1929 and married Elizabeth Johnson in 1930. The couple took an apartment on McCulloh Street, Baltimore, within walking distance of Pennsylvania Avenue, the African American entertainment and shopping district. [Read More]
Collection Origin
Acquired from the Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, 1997-1998
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of over 6,000 four-inch by five-inch acetate negatives and approximately 427 photographic prints. The negatives consist of portraits of African Americans, organizations and clubs, Civil Rights-related protests, entertainers, politicians, Pennsylvania Avenue, the African American community of Baltimore, etc. circa 1940-1960. [Read More]
Arrangement
The negatives are arranged in boxes within nine crates. Each crate contains roughly 20 individual boxes. Crate nine is restricted from public use due to severe deterioration. The original arrangement of the negatives as they arrived from the Baltimore City Life Museum to MdHS remains in tact.
The original negatives within this collection are restricted from public use. Reference photographs are available in the Special Collections Department.
See also: Paul Henderson Manuscript and Ephemera Collection, MS 3089
Container Lists
All descriptions were taken from text that was written on the negative sleeves before reaching MdHS unless otherwise noted. This may have been written while the collection was housed at the Baltimore City Life Museum Collection.
Part I: Henderson Negatives
Note: The Henderson Collection inventory lists are undergoing reworking in order to provide the most current, verified information to visitors. Please check back for updated lists. Click on the links to each invidual group of boxes. These links will either lead to the box page or directly to the container list (PDF).
BOX A1 - BOX A2 (ca. 1946, 1948-1956, 1958-1959, and undated)
Clubs, bars, and restaurants, musicians and entertainers, Arrow Beer advertisement photographs, Negro League Baseball team Elite Giants, classes and schoolgroups, factory workers, businesses, Baltimore City street scenes, parks, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) meetings and events, Civil Rights demonstrations, Planned Parenthood, politicians, weddings, Pennsylvania Avenue, birthdays, Harlem Globetrotters, etc. Two boxes total.
Boxes HEN.00.B1 - HEN.00.B2 (1947-1954, 1956-1957, 1959, 1962): Pennsylvania Avenue, movie theaters, National Association for the Advancment of Colored People (NAACP) events, politicians, barber shop, clothing stores, grocery stores, businesses, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Maryland Normal and Industrial School at Bowie (now Bowie State University), graduates, classes, Druid Hill Park, etc. Two boxes total.
Crate 1 - Boxes HEN.01.01 - HEN.01.14 (1948-1949): Mostly unidentified portraits. Also includes churches and priests, Druid Hill Park, funerals, graduations, weddings, Fitzgerald Apartments, sports, classes, social groups, birthday celebrations, etc. Fourteen boxes total.
Crate 2 - Boxes HEN.02.01 - HEN.02.18 (1949-1951): Mostly unidentified portraits. Also includes weddings, women-organized church gatherings, classrooms, Morgan State College (now University) sports and teams, gatherings, graduations, churches, library, banquets, funerals, etc. Eighteen boxes total.
Crate 3 - Boxes HEN.03.01 - HEN.03.16 (1951-1952): Mostly unidentified portraits. Also includes Morgan State College events and faculty portraits, and also weddings, church activities, etc. Sixteen boxes total.
Crate 4 - Boxes HEN.04.01 - HEN.04.10 (1948, 1953-1953, and not dated): Mostly unidentified portraits. Also includes Arbutus Memorial Park, graduation, social gatherings, adults and children, funerals, Alpha Kappa Alpha Convention, Morgan State College (now University), Maryland Normal and Industrial School at Bowie (now Bowie State University), church activities, etc. Ten boxes total.
Crate 5 - Boxes HEN.05.01 - HEN.05.17 (1953-1954): Mostly unidentified portraits. Also includes weddings, graduations, social gatherings, classrooms, birthdays, graduations, church demonstration, street scenes, churches, library, Maryland Normal and Industrial School at Bowie (now Bowie State University), etc. Seventeen boxes total.
Crate 6 - Boxes HEN.06.01 - HEN.06.16 (1954-1959, and not dated): Mostly unidentified portraits. Also includes Arbutus Memorial Cemetery, hospital and nurses, Morgan State College sports, classroom, banquet, birthday celebration, funeral, military portraits, church choir, Chick Webb Memorial Recreation Center, etc. Sixteen boxes total.
Crate 7 - Boxes HEN.07.01 - HEN.07.15 (1959, 1962, and not dated): Mostly unidentified portraits. Also includes church gathering, Morgan State College (now University), possibly photographs of the Baltimore neigborhood Cherry Hill, graduates, funeral, etc. Fifteen boxes total.
Crate 8 - Boxes HEN.08.01 - HEN.08.13 (1947, 1953, and not dated): Mostly unidentified portraits. Also includes church activities, wedding, school art exhibit, funeral, St. James Episcoal Church, Bethel A.M.E. Church, etc. Thirteen boxes total.
Crate 9 - Boxes HEN.09.01 - HEN.09.12 (ca. 1934-1949 and not dated): Mostly unidentified group portraits. Also includes Morgan State College (now University), church gatherings, Cortez Peters School, Duke Ellington, N.A.A.C.P, Afro-American newspaper. Twelve boxes total. Please note that most of the photographs in this crate are not available for scanning.
Part II: Cornish-Henderson Prints (1991.44) and Copy Photographs
Download the Cornish-Henderson Print Inventory (1991.44)
The Cornish-Henderson gift consists of Henderson family portraits, ephemera, and vintage prints produced by Henderson.
The Copy Photographs portion of this collection are modern prints made from Henderson's negatives found in Part I. They are for reference only.
To learn more about the subjects Henderson photographed, visit the Paul Henderson More Information page.
See also: Paul Henderson Manuscript and Ephemera Collection, MS 3089
