COLLECTIONS RESOLUTIONS
February 16, 2007
I.
Nominees for Accessioning into the Visual Arts Collection
A. Donation of a circa 1970 painting by Ernie Barnes offered by Irving Zeiger
of Los Angeles.
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1. Ernie Barnes is a prolific painter living and working in Southern California. He
studied art in college, then went on to play professional football for the
Baltimore Colts. Art became his primary focus at his debut solo exhibition in
New York in 1966. Barnes is featured in many collections including the
Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, currently on display at
CAAM and in the permanent collection (Moniz 2007). Approved by
Collections Review Committee vote on January 19, 2007.
Untitled, ca 1970
Ernie Barnes
Oil on canvas
II. Nominees for Accessioning into the History Collection
A. Donation of ferrotype photo, ca 1900 offered by Edward T. Garcia of La
Verne, California.
1. The unidentified well dressed young man is dated around the turn of the
twentieth century in Boston, Massachusetts. This acquisition builds up the
Museum’s limited collection of African American photography in the early twentieth
century. The ferrotype, also called the tintype or melainotype, is a photographic
process developed in the United States in the 19th century. It was invented by Prof.
Hamilton Smith of the Kenyon College, Ohio in 1856 (Jimenez Y West, 2007).
Approved by Collections Review Committee vote on January 19, 2007.
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Unidentified well-dressed African American man, ca 1900
Ferrotype photograph
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B. Donation of a bronze manilla, ca 1843 offered by Edward T. Garcia of La
Verne, California.
1. On the west coast of Africa, from the Congo, north to Senegal, bronze bracelets
(properly called Manillas) were worn both for personal adornment and for use as
money. They became known as "slave trade money" after the Europeans started
using them to acquire slaves for the slave trade into the Americas as well as
England prior to 1807(Jimenez Y West, 2007). Approved by Collections Review
Committee vote on January 19, 2007.
Manilla [token used in Slave Trade], ca 1843
Bronze
C. Donation of WW II era military pamphlet from the 92nd Infantry Division,
offered by Edward T. Garcia of La Verne, California.
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1. The 92nd Division of the United States was one of two segregated Army units
during WWII. Continuing the tradition of the 9th and 10th Calvary Regiments,
better known as the Buffalo Soldiers, the all black units transitioned from horse
mounted divisions to infantry and support during WWI. The 92nd received
generally unfavorable reviews for its combat performance and was accorded
status as the worst American Division in WWII. Recent scholarship argues for
a more nuanced understanding of how racial segregation, incompetency by
white officers and poor planning impacted the soldiers. The pamphlet, largely
propaganda initiated by Major General Almond, widely considered the source
problem of the division, is an important artifact of the war (Jimenez Y West
2007). Approved by the Collections Review Committee vote on January
19, 2007.
Infantry Day…in the 92d Division, June 15, 1944
Published by the "Buffalo" 92d Infantry Division
Printed paper pamphlet
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