The Baltimore Collection

CTL-E-0792 · Archive · collection · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

53 photographs of Black sitters at the University of Delaware Library (donated 2001) that arrived as "found objects" - no photographers, sitters, dates, or provenance; seminars (2017-2023) reconstructing metadata.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-043; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

University of Delaware Library (primary source)

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