The vast majority of these images are early African American studio portraits and snapshots salvaged from personal photo albums. Formats in this subseries vary, but include black and white, sepia, stereographs, and a few metal color prints.
The collection consists of manuscript music, print music, personal songbooks, personal papers, programs, and pictures. Music books have been cataloged and relocated to Rare Books. Audio recordings have been relocated to Judaica Sound Archives.
