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  • Title[Loida Nicolas Lewis]
  • Call NumberBPL_0460
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (BPL 0459, BPL 0461, BPL 0457, BPL 0456, BPL 0458), some of which may also be described in this new record; Six views of event at the Business Library of Brooklyn Public Library at which Loida Nicolas Lewis, author of How to get a green card, signed copies of Why should white guys have all the fun? written by her late husband, Reginald Lewis. Images include Howard Golden, borough president; Martin Gomez, library director, several library employees, including Jeanette Judkins, Joan Canning, Judith Foust, Ellen Rudley, and Diana Fan, library trustees, Bonnie Bellamy, and Marcia Steinhart, and Roy A. Hastick, president of the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce. 0461 is a close-up view of Ms. Lewis autographing a copy of her book.
  • Date1996
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description6 photographic prints : black & white ; 8 x 10 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteOn verso: date inscribed: 1996; photographer's stamp. Title supplied by cataloger.
  • CreatorKirk, Kathryn [photographer]
  • SubjectCanning, Joan ; Golden, Howard ; Gomez, Martin ; Lewis, Loida Nicolas, 1942- ; Lewis, Reginald F., 1942-1993 ; Brooklyn Public Library. Business Library ; African American authors -- New York (State) -- New York ; Public libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.