DODSON, OWEN, 1914-1983.
Owen Dodson papers
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Series 6
Photographs, 1912-1979
Boxes 24-25, BV1, and OP14-15
Scope and Content Note
The photographs in this collection date from 1912-1979 and cover the span of Owen Dodson's life, from his early childhood and junior high school days through his time in the Navy, his work at Howard University, and his literary and theatrical careers. The photographs are organized into Owen Dodson, family, plays, and other. The Owen Dodson section includes photos of Owen Dodson by himself and with others. These photos show Dodson with friends and colleagues in academic and social settings and document his friendships with Gordon Heath, James Hatch, and Camille Billops. Dodson's sister, Edith, is also prominent in the Owen Dodson section, illustrating her significant role in his life and the closeness of their relationship. Family photographs represent Dodson's immediate family. Production photos from plays written and/or directed by Dodson indicate the prominence of certain plays, including Bayou Legend and Hamlet, in his directing career. The other photos are primarily pictures of friends and actors known by Dodson.
Arrangement Note
Arranged in alphabetical order with the exception of photographs of Dodson, which are arranged chronologically.
| Owen Dodson | ||
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | 1 | Dodson, Owen, undated |
| 24 | 2 | Dodson, Owen, with Edith Dodson, undated |
| 24 | 3 | Dodson, Owen, baby photo, [1914] |
| 24 | 4 | Dodson, Owen, and Kenneth Dodson as children with others, [circa 1919] |
| 24 | 5 | Dodson, Owen, as young man, [circa 1920s] |
| OP14 | Dodson, Owen, as young man, [circa 1920s] | |
| 24 | 6 | Dodson, Owen, with Kenneth Dodson and Edna Wilson, 1921 |
| 24 | 7 | Dodson, Owen, junior high class photo, June 1929 |
| OP15 | Dodson, Owen, junior high class photos, 1928-1929 | |
| 24 | 8 | Dodson, Owen, Bates College, 1932 |
| 24 | 9 | Dodson, Owen, in his room at Bates College, 1936 |
| 24 | 10 | Dodson, Owen, with Kay Craft, Jimmy Carter, and John Kenny, Bates College, 1936 |
| 24 | 11 | Dodson, Owen, summer 1936 |
| 24 | 12 | Dodson, Owen, [circa 1940s] |
| 24 | 13 | Dodson, Owen, with Edith Dodson, Lillian Dodson, and Gordon Heath, 1940 |
| 24 | 14 | Dodson, Owen, Navy photos by Carl Van Vechten, 1942 |
| 24 | 15 | Dodson, Owen, with Edith Dodson, Gordon Heath, and others, [circa 1944] |
| 24 | 16 | Dodson, Owen, with Edith Dodson and Lillian Dodson, and Louise Leftwich, [circa 1948] |
| 24 | 17 | Dodson, Owen, with Edith and Arthur Taylor, by Alexander King, September 3, 1948 |
| 24 | 18 | Dodson, Owen, with Eleanor Roosevelt and others, New York Harbor, August 31, 1949 |
| 24 | 19 | Dodson, Owen, at Howard University, 1952 |
| 24 | 20 | Dodson, Owen, with Edith Dodson and Howard University Players, boarding Andrea Doria, September 11, 1953 |
| 24 | 21 | Dodson, Owen, with others, Italy photos, 1953-1954 |
| 24 | 22 | Dodson, Owen, with Rolf, May 13, 1955 |
| 24 | 23 | Dodson, Owen, with Sidney Poitier, Howard University, [circa 1960s] |
| 24 | 24 | Dodson, Owen, Howard University Fine Arts building opening, 1961 |
| 24 | 25 | Dodson, Owen, with Helen Johnson, Greater New York Regional College English Association, May 1, 1961 |
| 24 | 26 | Dodson, Owen, Washington, D.C., May 7, 1963 |
| 24 | 27 | Dodson, Owen, with Langston Hughes, Mrs. Martin, and J.W. Butcher, Howard University, [circa June 1963] |
| 24 | 28 | Dodson, Owen, 1966 |
| 24 | 29 | Dodson, Owen, and others, Dartmouth College, January 10, 1968 |
| 24 | 30 | Dodson, Owen, with Richard Eberhardt, Dartmouth College, January 1968 |
| 24 | 31 | Dodson, Owen, with Katheryn Doyle Vining and others, S.S. United States, August 25, 1968 |
| 24 | 32 | Dodson, Owen, [circa 1970s] |
| 24 | 33 | Dodson, Owen, by Anthony Barboza, [circa 1970s] |
| 24 | 34 | Dodson, Owen, with Edith Dodson, Jean Hutson, Ivie Jackman, and others, [circa 1970s] |
| 24 | 35 | Dodson, Owen, poetry reading, Howard University, February 11, 1974 |
| 24 | 36 | Dodson, Owen, Christmas dinner, 1974 |
| 24 | 37 | Dodson, Owen, with Jean Miller and Dr. Steve Henderson, Howard University, March 1974 |
| 24 | 38 | Dodson, Owen, with others, Outstanding Pioneer Award, 1975 |
| 24 | 39 | Dodson, Owen, February 1975 |
| 24 | 40 | Dodson, Owen, with Camille Billops, February 1975 |
| 24 | 41 | Dodson, Owen, with Robert Wilson and Gordon Heath, February 11, 1975 |
| 24 | 42 | Dodson, Owen, teaching at the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop, New York, 1976 |
| 24 | 43 | Dodson, Owen, with Edith Dodson, Camille Billops, and James Van Der Zee, Harlem Book of the Dead signing, 1977 |
| 24 | 44 | Dodson, Owen, with James Hatch, September 11, 1977 |
| 24 | 45 | Dodson, Owen, with Selma Burke, September 11, 1977 |
| 24 | 46 | Dodson, Owen, March 1978 |
| 24 | 47 | Dodson, Owen, with Lloyd Richards, and Ed Bullins, CUNY Grad Center, November 8, 1978 |
| 24 | 48 | Dodson, Owen, with James Butcher, Donal Leace, Sterling Brown, Glenda Dickerson, Richard Wesley, Robbie McCauley, Sandy Williams, and Charles Bettis, May 12, 1979 |
| Family | ||
| 24 | 49 | Dodson, Edith, undated |
| 24 | 50 | Dodson, Edith, 1936 |
| 24 | 51 | Dodson, Edith, in mini family photo album, [circa 1940s-1950s] |
| 24 | 52 | Dodson, Edith, at Howard University, 1944 |
| 24 | 53 | Dodson, Edith, February 1975 |
| BV1 | Dodson, Edith, photo album, 1937-1948 | |
| 24 | 54 | Dodson, Evelyn, undated |
| 24 | 55 | Dodson, Kenneth, undated |
| 24 | 56 | Dodson, Nathaniel, Jr., undated |
| 24 | 57 | Dodson, Nathaniel, 1920 |
| 24 | 58 | Dodson, Kenneth, eighth grade, [1926] |
| 24 | 59 | Dodson, Kenneth, high school graduation, 1933 |
| Plays | ||
| 24 | 60 | Air Raid, Til Victory Is Won, and The Happy Journey, cast members with Dodson, Howard University Players, 1965 |
| 24 | 61 | Bartered Bride, James Exum, et al., Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 24 | 62 | Bayou Legend, Howard University, 1946 |
| 24 | 63 | Bayou Legend, 1948 |
| 24 | 64 | Bayou Legend, Howard University, 1957 |
| 24 | 65 | Bayou Legend, Amas Theatre, New York City, January 10, 1975 |
| 24 | 66 | Bury the Dead, Harlem School of the Arts, 1971 |
| 24 | 67 | Confession Stone, Theatre Off Park, 1979 |
| 25 | 1 | Death of a Salesman, Lincoln University, August 1, 1960 |
| 25 | 2 | Divine Comedy, Yale University, 1938 [1 of 2] |
| 25 | 3 | Divine Comedy, Yale University, 1938 [2 of 2] |
| 25 | 4 | Everyman, Workshops for Careers in the Arts Everyman Street Theater Company, 1970 |
| 25 | 5 | Garden of Time, William Greaves and Sadie Brown, American Negro Theatre, March 1945 |
| 25 | 6 | Hamlet, featuring Gordon Heath, Earle Hyman, et al., Hampton Institute, 1945 |
| 25 | 7 | Hamlet, Howard University, 1951 |
| 25 | 8 | Hamlet, Howard University, April 1964 |
| 25 | 9 | Medea in Africa, Harlem School of the Arts, May 21, 1971 |
| 25 | 10 | No More Peace, Spelman College, December 1939 |
| 25 | 11 | Oedipus Rex, Howard University, October 1966 |
| 25 | 12 | Richard III, Howard University, 1953 |
| 25 | 13 | Sound of Soul, Brenda Gilmore photographer, 1978 |
| 25 | 14 | Unidentified production photos, undated |
| 25 | 15 | You Can't Take It With You, cast: Owen Dodson, Joseph Jenkins, Al Spurlock, Ednah Bethea, Anne Cooke, et al., November 1940 |
| Other | ||
| 25 | 16 | Booker, Ruby, [circa 1910-1920s] |
| 25 | 17 | Campbell, Erma, actress, [circa 1970s] |
| 25 | 18 | Carruthers, Ben, 1959 |
| 25 | 19 | Castro, Ron, actor, 1970 |
| 25 | 20 | Carter, Sylvester, Bates College, [circa 1934] |
| 25 | 21 | Church built by Indians at Caughnawaga, New York, no date |
| 25 | 22 | Danish production photo, 1950 |
| 25 | 23 | De Suze, Carl, 1937 |
| 25 | 24 | D.C. Black Repertory Dance Company, Kikki Shepherd and Bernie Gibson, [circa 1960s-1970s] |
| 25 | 25 | Gilberts, Lou, Martha Lou Gilberts, and children, 1975 |
| 25 | 26 | Gill, Roscoe, composer of The Morning Duke Ellington Praised the Lord and Seven Little Black Davids Tap-Danced Unto, [circa 1960s-1970s] |
| 25 | 27 | Hall, Ed, actor, 1971 |
| 25 | 28 | Harrington, Oliver, artist, Yale roommate, 1938 |
| 25 | 29 | Harrington, Oliver, Yale roommate, 1941 |
| 25 | 30 | Harriot, Frank, actor, 1945 |
| 25 | 31 | Heath, Gordon, no date |
| 25 | 32 | Heath, Priscilla, 1936 |
| 25 | 33 | Hinton, Mercie, 1978 |
| 25 | 34 | Houston, Gary, co-chair Dartmouth College, January 10, 1968 |
| 25 | 35 | Howard University, Douglass Hall, 1944 |
| 25 | 36 | Kurt [?], 1957 |
| 25 | 37 | Lucas, Helen Olivia, 1912 |
| 25 | 38 | Lucas, Clarence, [circa 1920s-1930s] |
| 25 | 39 | Marquee announcing Dodson poetry reading at Black Arts Festival, Dartmouth College, 1968 |
| 25 | 40 | Marshall, Agnes, 1936 |
| 25 | 41 | Michael, Charles, actor, 1971 |
| 25 | 42 | Moore, Jerry, actor, 1939 |
| 25 | 43 | National Benefit Life Insurance Company, no date |
| 25 | 44 | Newman, Geoffrey, [circa 1960s-1970s] |
| 25 | 45 | Newman, Geoffrey, at Wabash College, 1974 |
| 25 | 46 | Office, [circa 1960s] |
| 25 | 47 | Pawley, Thomas, actor, 1940 |
| 25 | 48 | Pitcher, Oliver, 1971 |
| 25 | 49 | Randolph, Grace, 1975 |
| 25 | 50 | Reid, Anne Cooke, Oberlin College, [circa 1930s] |
| 25 | 51 | Sacchetti, Giocondo, 1954 |
| 25 | 52 | The Scurlock Studio, Washington D.C., no date |
| 25 | 53 | Snowden, Frank, with group at the Epidaurus Theater, no date |
| 25 | 54 | Spurlock, Al, 1940 |
| 25 | 55 | Trajtenberg, Mario, on State Island ferry, 1960 |
| 25 | 56 | Turner, Charles, actor, 1979 |
| 25 | 57 | Unidentified, 1957-1976, no date |
| 25 | 58 | Unidentified artwork (slides), 1972 |
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