Mrs. Sadee Mozsee sic, Sadie Mozee #5 of 5 photonegative

Object Details

Photographer: Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964
Creator: Defender (film manufacturer)
Names: Black Bird Revue; Dark Town Entertainers; Mozee, Sadie
Subseries Creator: Custom Craft; Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.); Scurlock, Addison N., 1883-1964; Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005; Scurlock, Robert S. (Saunders), 1917-1994

See more items in: Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.5: Black and white negatives in cold storage arranged by job number; Scurlock Studio Records, Subseries 4.5: Black and white negatives in cold storage arranged by job number / Scurlock client negatives: M - Mysich

Sponsor: The collection was acquired with assistance from the Eugene Meyer Foundation. Elihu and Susan Rose and the Save America's Treasures program, provided funds to stabilize, organize, store, and create digital surrogates of some of the negatives. Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.

Biographical / Historical: According to a great-niece of the subject, Christine Willis (in an email, 27 April 2015), Sadie Mozee was born Louisa Marshall in the United Kingdom. In an article about air raids and wartime diffculties in England, Theatre Section, Afro-American, Sept. 6, 1941, it was stated that Ms. Mozee was living at 2107 Second St., N.W., Washington, and was concerned about relatives in England. ( https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2211&dat=19410906&id=4epfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QgMGAAAAIBAJ&pg=3944,581626&hl=en ) This article, however, states that she was born in Cairo, Egypt, to an American mother and Egyptian father, then raised in London. She had a stage career as a singer beginning at age fifteen, touring Europe with the Dark Town Entertainers. She came to the U.S. with the Black Bird Revue in 1929. She met her husband Frank Mozee in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Medium: Silver gelatin on cellulose acetate film sheet, 10 x 8 in.
Condition: Fingerprints; slight warping; curls when exposed to heat; edge imprint faded.

Subseries Citation: Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution

Subseries Rights: When the Museum purchased the collection from the Estate of Robert S. Scurlock, it obtained all rights, including copyright. The earliest photographs in the collection are in the public domain because their term of copyright has expired. The Archives Center will control copyright and the use of the collection for reproduction purposes, which will be handled in accordance with its standard reproduction policy guidelines. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Genre/Form: Photographs -- 1930-1950 -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film

Scope and Contents: Job Number: 49140; Caption on negative: "49140 Mrs. Sadee Mozsee 1 8x10 sepia". Woman in long dress standing next to window, one hand on table. Retouching on face. "Defender Safety Base" edge imprint.

Subseries Restrictions: Collection is open for research. Series 8: Business Records, Subseries 8.1: Studio Session Registers are restricted. Digital copies available for research. See repository for details. Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view negatives due to cold storage. Using negatives requires a three hour waiting period. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270.