Dox Thrash autobiography
name: label: Creator
content: Thrash, Dox, 1892-1965
topic: label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: African American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Microfilmed in 1990 as part of AAA's Philadelphia Arts Documentation Project. Photocopies donated to the Free Library of Philadelphia by Ruth Fine, who obtained them from Samuel Nowak for her entry on Thrash for "Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art," Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1976.
creator: label: Creator
content: Thrash, Dox, 1892-1965
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Dox Thrash (1892-1965) was an African American printer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thrash joined the Works Progress Administration Federal Arts Project in 1937 and began working at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia. While there he co-created the carborundum printmaking process.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel (2 pages on partial microfilm reel)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.thradox
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 4408 available at Archives of American Art offices, through interlibrary loan and at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
label: Reproduction Note
content: All photocopies.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Location of originals unknown.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This microfilm collection contains 2 photocopy typescript pages of African American printer Dox Thrash's autobiography discussing his travels, education, and exhibition history.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The Emory University Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library holds the Dox Thrash collection, 1920-1966