Description

Some photographs bear photo agency's handstamp on verso. Some items have printed captions attached to verso; some items bear printed captions on verso; some items bear handwritten captions on verso.Title devised by cataloger.Collection contains work by the United Nations, British Information Service and United Press International, among others.Negatives exist for some images.Portraits and views of Tazanian president Julius Nyerere. Collection consists of half and quarter-length studio and candid portraits, and one close-up portrait, of Nyerere (ca. 1961-1966); a group portrait showing Nyerere with United States Ambassador John H. Burns and U.S. State Department officials G. Mennen Williams, David B. Bolen and William A.K. Lake, in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania (1966); views of Nyerere meeting with other foreign officials at the United Nations, in New York (1961, 1963 and 1970); a view of a meeting with a U.N. committee on decolonization in Dar-es-Salaam (1976); and a view of Nyerere with presidents Siaka Stevens (Sierra Leone) and Kenneth Kaunda(Zambia) at an Organization of African Unity conference (1974).

From Collection

Portrait collection

Record Contributed By

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

Record Harvested From

The New York Public Library