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Black Portfolio
Date(s)
- [ca.1930-1965]. (Creation)
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Item
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195 photographs : col. ; 500 x 405 mm or smaller.
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Jack & Rita Tait; Hay on Wye; Donation; May 2012; 006270328
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[graphic].
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Title is a reference to the original storage container in which these photographs arrived in the Library.
Note
A number of the photos are of people or places in the West Indies. These are believed to have been taken by Joy Thomas (nee Williams) on her scholarship to Jamaica in 1937. Her decision to visit Jamaica on a travelling scholarship may be attributed in part to the fact that her travelling companion, a fellow Royal College of Art student Rhoda Lazarus was of Jewish background and would therefore have felt uncomfortable visiting mainland Europe due to the anti-semitism prevalent at the time.
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vtls006270328
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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales