Harry Adams (1918-1988)

The photographs of Harry Adams were seen for thirty years on the pages of the California Eagle and the Los Angeles Sentinel. Adams also photographed for scores of churches, social organizations, and private clients. Adams was probably one of the best-known people in the community: he and his camera were an omnipresent part of social life from 1955-1985.

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Subjects include:

• Churches - Buildings, Choirs, Congregations, Political and Religious leaders.
• Adlai Stevenson- Illinois governor
• Archie Moore
• Augustus Hawkins-Congressman
• Bishop Daddy Grace
• Bob Hope
• Coretta Scott King
• Dick Gregory
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Fifty Photographs)
• Ed Roybal-Latino Activist and Congressman
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Fats Domino
• Frank Sinatra
• Gilbert Lindsay-Los Angeles City Councilman
• Governor Edmund Brown
• Groucho Marx
• Jersy Joe Walcott
• Jim Brown
• Joe Louis
• Judge Stanley Mosk- State Supreme Court
• Julian Bond
• Leon Washington-Founder Los Angeles Sentinel
• Los Angeles-Freedom Riders
• Louis Armstrong
• Malcolm X
• Mayor Sam Yorty
• Mayor Tom Bradley
• Muhammad Ali
• Nat “King” Cole
• President Jimmy Carter
• Ralph Abernathy
• Roy Wilkins-President of the NAACP
• Sammy Davis Jr.

Copyright. The items in the Harry Adams Collections are made available for educational purposes. Commercial use of works that are not in the public domain is strictly prohibited by law without prior written consent from the copyright holder(s). The responsibility for the use of these materials rests exclusively with the user.