Ida Hill photograph collection, circa 1860s-1971

Summary

Creators:

Hill, Ida.

Abstract:

The Ida Hill Photograph Collection includes 29 photographs of various members of the Hill and Robinson families, group photographs of African American masons, and Dicy Robinson’s memorial card. A bulk of the collection are family photographs of William and Ida Hill and their children William Hill Jr., Alfred Hill, and Beverly Hill in Oakland and Alameda, California. The collection also includes a cabinet card taken in New Orleans, Louisiana, most likely of Ida Robinson Hill’s father sometime in the 1860s and a group photograph of the Robinson family taken in front of their home in the 1890s. The collection includes ten group photographs of various African American masonic groups in California in the 1930-1950s.

Extent:

.1 linear feet (2 folders)

Language:

Languages represented in the collection: English

Preferred citation:

Ida Hill photograph collection, MS 58, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.

Background

Scope and content:

The Ida Hill Photograph Collection includes 29 photographs of various members of the Hill and Robinson families, group photographs of African American masons, and Dicy Robinson’s memorial card. A bulk of the collection are family photographs of William and Ida Hill and their children William Hill Jr., Alfred Hill, and Beverly Hill in Oakland and Alameda, California. The collection also includes a cabinet card taken in New Orleans, Louisiana, most likely of Ida Robinson Hill’s father sometime in the 1860s and a group photograph of the Robinson family taken in front of their home in the 1890s. The collection includes ten group photographs of various African American masonic groups in California in the 1930-1950s.

Processing information:

Processed by Sean Heyliger, 09/12/2013.

Arrangement:

Series I. Photographs Series II. Dicy Robinson memorial card

Rules or conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:

African American--Families.
African American freemasonry--California--History.
African American freemasons--California--History.

Names:

Hill family.
Hill, Ida.

Restrictions:

No access restrictions. Collection is open to the public.

Materials are for use in-library only, non-circulating.

Terms of access:

Permission to publish from the Ida Hill Photograph Collection must be obtained from the African American Museum & Library at Oakland.

Preferred citation:

Ida Hill photograph collection, MS 58, African American Museum & Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library. Oakland, California.

Location of this collection:

Oakland Public Library, African American Museum and Library at Oakland

659 14th Street

Oakland, CA 94612, US

Contact:

(510) 637-0198

aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org

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