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Neighborhood News photographic collection, Mid-1940s through early 1950s.

 

Summary

Creator:
St. Petersburg Times
Neighborhood News Bureau
Abstract:
Photographs in this collection appeared in the "Negro News" section of the St. Petersburg Times in the late 1940s through early 1950s.
Extent:
20 folders
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

The Neighborhood News Photographic collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Background

Scope and content:

64 photographs from the 1940s-1950s fron the "Negro News" pages of the St. Petersburg Times organized by subject.

Biographical / historical:

Many of the images in this collection once appeared in the "Negro News" section once published by the Times Publishing Company, a St. Petersburg corporation that owned the St. Petersburg Times during that time period. The St. Petersburg Times has since been renamed the Tampa Bay Times. At some point in time, they were acquired by the Neighborhood News Bureau, a partnership of USFSP and other entities that documents events in and shares news of Midtown, an area of southern St. Petersburg with a substantial African American population. The Neighborhood News Bureau (NNB) opened in March of 2006 and is located in its own offices in Midtown St. Petersburg. It is a working newsroom, staffed by USF St. Petersburg campus undergraduate and graduate students. In January 2014, Dr. Deni Elliott, Chair of Journalism and Media Studies at USFSP and the Eleanor Poynter Jamison Chair of Media Ethics and Press Policy, transferred this collection from the Neighborhood News Bureau offices to the Poynter Library to ensure the long‐term preservation of the photographs.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Terms of access:

None. The contents of the collection may be subject to copyright. Visit the United States Copyright Office's website at http://www.copyright.gov/ for more information.

Preferred citation:

The Neighborhood News Photographic collection, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL.

Location of this collection:
140 7th Avenue South
St. Petersburg
FL
33701
USA