[Photographs of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority].

New York, New York, [circa 1930s]

3 photographs : black and white prints ; 31 x 51 cm and smaller

Purchased from James Arsenault & Company on the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts & Letters Fund, 2019.

This material is open for research.

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority is an African American Greek letter sorority. It was founded on January 13, 1913 at Howard University in Washington, D.C.

Two photographs of members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. Includes one photograph of Columbia University's Rho Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority attending their annual dinner at the International House, New York, New York, December 28, 1936, taken by Willey; and one panoramic photograph depicting members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority standing in front of a building while holding a banner, taken by an unidentified photographer, circa 1930s. Also includes a photograph of African American women posed in front of a Christmas tree wearing Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity ribbons, taken by Campbell, New York, circa 1930s.

English

March 29, 2021

Photographs of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Photographs of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority. James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.