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Identifier	RGD0006N-1966-0082-18
Title	Barbara Jordan at a desk
Original Publisher	Houston Post
Description	Medium photographic shot of Barbara Jordan sitting at a desk.
Abstract	Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman to serve in the Texas State Senate, first African American U.S. Representative from Texas, and first African American to deliver a keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention.
Background	During the 1880s, the use of glass as a transparent and stable base for dry photographic emulsions replaced the collodion wet plate process. Glass was the first widely implemented medium used to create a transparent photographic negative. The end product became known as the glass plate negative and became obsolete as the camera and the photograph processes evolved over time. Commonly used into the 1920s, glass plate negatives prefigured the more durable, affordable, and familiar flexible film negative.
Source	black and white negatives
Type	Image
Language	English
Keywords	Houston Women
Subject Terms	Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Geographic Subject Terms	Houston (Tex.)
Era	1900s
Publisher	Electronic version published by Houston Public Library, Houston, Texas
Collection	RGD0006 Houston Post Photographic Collection
HPL Location	Houston Post Collection, Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library
Rights	Reproduced with permission. Please contact the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston, Texas.
Format	jpg
Filename	RGD06N-1966.0082 fr18 8x.jpg

Barbara Jordan at a desk

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