PHOTODESCRIPTIONUNIT — Box: HUM 2.85 Box 1, Box: Folder 19
Identifier: HUM 2, HUM 2.85, HUM 2.85 (153)
Judge Francis Ellis Rivers, half-length portrait, sitting at desk, facing front, 1945
Description
Inscribed on front: To my esteemed friend, Col. Roscoe Conkling Simmons, with very best wishes, Francis Ellis Rivers, 11/5/45.
Dates
- Creation: 1945
Access
Open for research.
Extent
1 photographs : gelatin silver print on cardboard mount ; ; print 26 x 21 cm (8 x 10 format))Biographical / Historical
First African American judge of the City Court of New York.
Source of information
Title devised.
Subject
- Rivers, Francis Ellis (Person)
Creator
- From the Collection: Simmons, Roscoe Conkling, 1881-1951 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Harvard University Archives Repository
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Contact:
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Pusey Library
Harvard Yard
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-2461
archives_reference@harvard.edu