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Studio portrait of Bessie J. Bearden, the first black woman elected to local School Board No. 15, in New York City, signing high school diplomas, circa 1930

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Photographs Portraits Gelatin Silver Prints Portrait Photographs
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1930
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Portrait collection

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library

Keywords

  1. African American Women Civic Leaders
  2. African Americans
  3. Bearden, Bessye J
  4. Employees
  5. New York
  6. New York (State)
  7. Public Schools
  8. Women

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