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Additional authors

1. Excelsior Photo Co. (Trenton, N.J.), photographer.
2. Wm.W. Seeler's Studio (Princeton, N.J.), photographer.

Found in

1. p1pc Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988 Kathleen Collins papers, 1924-2015 (OCoLC)1125983701

Description

1. 31 items (two folders); 26 x 21 cm.

Summary

1. Collection consists of contact sheets depicting the cast and crew of the motion picture "Losing Ground" in 1982; and individual and group portraits of the relatives of Kathleen Collins's mother Mildred Conwell (née Jones), as well as Jones herself, ca. 1863-2003. Depictions of Collins's personal life and other professional activities are not included.
2. The contact sheets from "Losing Ground" depict director/writer Collins, cinematographer Ronald K. Gray, and cast members Seret Scott, Bill Gunn, Maritza Rivera and Norberto Kerner. Some views of location shots, mannequins, and an unidentified child are also included. The personal photographs, many of which are photographic reproductions of vintage prints, depict the descendants and relatives of Jeremiah and Hannah Pierce, Collins's maternal great-grandparents, mainly from the 1860s to the late 1940s, including Mildred Jones as a small child to young adulthood. Also included are portraits of descendants from the late 1990s to 2000s.

Subject

1. Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988
2. Gray, Ronald K
3. Gunn, Bill, 1934-1989
4. Kerner, Norberto, 1929-1999
5. Rivera, Maritza
6. Scott, Seret
7. African American women motion picture producers and directors
8. African Americans in the motion picture industry
9. African Americans in motion pictures
10. African American motion picture actors and actresses
11. Hispanic American actors
12. African American families > New Jersey.

Genre/Form

1. Group portraits.
2. Portrait photographs.
3. Contact sheets – 1980-1989.
4. Gelatin silver prints – 1920-1989.
5. Dye coupler prints.
6. Inkjet prints.

Call number

1. Sc Photo Kathleen Collins Collection

Note

1. Title taken from Kathleen Collins Papers.
2. Most of the personal photographs bear handwritten captions or notations on verso; one item bears handwritten notations on recto. Contact sheets bear no captions or notations.
3. Two contact sheets are near duplicates with one being printed darker and having two frames cut out.
4. Collection contains work by Excelsior Photo Co. and Wm. W. Seeler's Studio.

Terms of use (note)

1. Some items may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography (note)

1. Kathleen Collins, 1942-1988, was an African-American writer, filmmaker, civil rights activist, and educator. Her two feature films, "The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy" (1980) and "Losing Ground" (1982), would influence the range of films created by Black women. Collins wrote many plays and screenplays, notably the plays "In the Midnight Hour" (1981) and "The Brothers" (1982). Her short story "Interiors," a fictionalized account of her divorce, was posthumously published in 2015, as was a collection of short stories entitled "Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?" (2016).

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Kathleen Collins Papers.

Author

1. Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988, collector.

Title

1. Kathleen Collins photographs.

Production

1. [between 1924 and 2009?]

Type of content

1. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Terms of use

1. Some items may be under copyright; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Biography

1. Kathleen Collins, 1942-1988, was an African-American writer, filmmaker, civil rights activist, and educator. Her two feature films, "The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy" (1980) and "Losing Ground" (1982), would influence the range of films created by Black women. Collins wrote many plays and screenplays, notably the plays "In the Midnight Hour" (1981) and "The Brothers" (1982). Her short story "Interiors," a fictionalized account of her divorce, was posthumously published in 2015, as was a collection of short stories entitled "Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?" (2016).

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Kathleen Collins Papers.

Local note

1. Sc MG 938

Connect to:

1. Request Appointment

Added author

1. Excelsior Photo Co. (Trenton, N.J.), photographer.
2. Wm.W. Seeler's Studio (Princeton, N.J.), photographer.

Found in:

1. p1pc Collins, Kathleen, 1942-1988 Kathleen Collins papers, 1924-2015 (OCoLC)1125983701

Research call number

1. Sc Photo Kathleen Collins Collection