[Christmas card with three-quarter length portrait of Walter and Poppy Cannon White, in Tokyo, wearing Japanese kimonos] – Historic Photo Reproduction
![[Christmas card with three-quarter length portrait of Walter and Poppy Cannon White, in Tokyo, wearing Japanese kimonos], 1949 — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/aa/aa5c4a26cbf5-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Christmas card with three-quarter length portrait of Walter and Poppy Cannon White, in Tokyo, wearing Japanese kimonos], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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[Christmas card with three-quarter length portrait of Walter and Poppy Cannon White, in Tokyo, wearing Japanese kimonos]
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Dressed in Japanese kimonos and photographed in Tokyo, Walter and Poppy Cannon White appear in this 1949 Christmas card. Walter Francis White served as executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for more than two decades, leading its campaigns against lynching and segregation. The card was printed as a halftone, a common method for reproducing photographs in mass-produced materials of the period. Japan was then under American occupation, which gives the setting added significance for a card sent by a prominent American civil rights leader.
| Created / published | 1949 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1940-1950.Group portraits 1940-1950.Christmas cards 1940-1950.Halftone photomechanical prints 1940-1950. |
| Notes | Forms part of: Visual Materials from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Records. Collection finding aid available. |
| Subjects | White, Walter Francis,--1893-1955. White, Poppy. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People--People--1940-1950. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,303 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-197994 |
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