Photo Record
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Metadata
Object ID |
A_9_041 |
Title |
[House where Paul Robeson was born] |
Collection |
Photo Archives |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Photographer |
Cameron, Gledhill |
Date |
January, 1972 |
Year Range from |
1972 |
Year Range to |
1972 |
Description |
Paul Robeson House, 110 Witherspoon Street, on the corner of Green Street. Paul Robeson was born in this house in 1898. Paul Robeson became one of Princeton's best known residents. Son of a former slave, the Reverend William Robeson of the Witherspoon Street Church, Robeson achieved fame as an athlete, a singer and actor, a scholar, a law school graduate and a political activist, for which he was persecuted during the McCarthy era. He eventually quit his film career because he was dissatisfied with the types of roles that were available for black performers. He lived abroad in voluntary exile for five years, returning to the United States in 1962. |
Place |
Princeton, NJ |
Print size |
8" x 10" |
Subjects |
Buildings Houses Residences Homes Streets Trees |
People |
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 |
Search Terms |
Witherspoon Street Green Street |
Notes |
In blue pen, LL corner of back of photo: PLEASE CREDIT! Photo by Gledhill Cameron January 1927. House where Paul Robseon was born, 1898. in black pen on back of photo: negative in Photo Archives In pencil on back of photo: A-9-II Houses identified A-Z Paul Robsen [sic] House Green Street Princeton NJ Neg A-9 4x5 Stamped on back of photo, twice: HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PRINCETON, N.J. |
Provenance |
Negative (4x5) is in the Photo Archives [note on verso]. |