This collection contains over 1100 images dating from 1887 to the present and document Spelmans presidents, commencement ceremonies, and campus building and grounds. Also featured are images from Spelmans Department of Drama and Dance from the 1930s to the present. At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.  
Jul 5, 2019

Spelman College Photographs Collection

This collection contains over 1100 images dating from 1887 to the present and document Spelmans presidents, commencement ceremonies, and campus building and grounds. Also featured are images from Spelmans Department of Drama and Dance from the 1930s to the present.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.  
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View of actors on stage.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The Constant Wife, 1956
Date Created
1956
Description
View of actors on stage.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of Senior Processional at Spelman College commencement 1956.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Spelman Commencement 1956
Date Created
1956
Description
View of Senior Processional at Spelman College commencement 1956.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Commencement ceremonies
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors performing in "The King and I" on stage.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The King and I, circa 1958
Date Created
1955/1961
Description
View of actors performing in "The King and I" on stage.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, Portraits, Faculty and staff, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife, June 23, 24, 25, 1955 - Jean Blackshear and William Smith, Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman Summer Theater.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, June 1955
Date Created
1955-06
Description
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife, June 23, 24, 25, 1955 - Jean Blackshear and William Smith, Atlanta-Morehouse-Spelman Summer Theater.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: Summer Theatre, 1955 William Smith and Arthur Floyd in "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife".
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife, 1955
Date Created
1955
Description
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: Summer Theatre, 1955 William Smith and Arthur Floyd in "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife".
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: Summer Theatre, 1955 William Smith and Jean Blackshear in "The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife".
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife, 1955
Date Created
1955
Description
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: Summer Theatre, 1955 William Smith and Jean Blackshear in "The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife".
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Ann McCullum and Georgia Allen in a scene from "The Innocents".
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The Innocents, 1955
Date Created
1955
Description
Ann McCullum and Georgia Allen in a scene from "The Innocents".
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
William Smith, Peggy Walker, and Georgia Allen in a scene from "The Innocents".
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The Innocents, 1955
Date Created
1955
Description
William Smith, Peggy Walker, and Georgia Allen in a scene from "The Innocents".
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: Summer Theatre, 1955 Jean Blackshear and William Smith in "The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife."
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife, 1955
Date Created
1955
Description
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: Summer Theatre, 1955 Jean Blackshear and William Smith in "The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife."
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of set.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The Innocents, 1955
Date Created
1955
Description
View of set.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: Sumer Theatre, 1955, "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife".
Spelman College Photographs Collection
The Man Who Married A Dumb Wife, 1955
Date Created
1955
Description
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: Sumer Theatre, 1955, "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife".
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
George Washington Slept Here, 1955
Date Created
1955
Description
View of actors on stage.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of 1955 Commencement.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Spelman Commencement 1955
Date Created
1955
Description
View of 1955 Commencement.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Commencement ceremonies
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
George Washington Slept Here, 1955
Date Created
1955
Description
View of actors on stage.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
George Washington Slept Here, 1955
Date Created
1955
Description
View of actors on stage.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Candida, circa 1955
Date Created
1954/1955
Description
View of actors on stage.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Candida, circa 1955
Date Created
1954/1955
Description
View of actors on stage.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Candida, circa 1955
Date Created
1954/1955
Description
View of actors on stage.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Candida, circa 1955
Date Created
1954/1955
Description
View of actors on stage.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: "Affairs of State" - Summer Theatre, 1954.
Spelman College Photographs Collection
Affairs of the State, July 1954
Date Created
1954-07
Description
View of actors on stage. Written on verso: "Affairs of State" - Summer Theatre, 1954.
Subject
African American universities and colleges, African American women, Theatre and dance, African American arts
Collection
Spelman College Photographs Collection