Photos and newspaper clippings from Frank Marshall Davis' personal collection. Photos are video-taped at the time an interview was conducted with him.

The following tapes include these images

Tape One:

Contains a portrait and 14 photos by Frank Marshall Davis:

1.  FMD Portrait (circa 1947)
2.  Street scene through window
3.  Portrait of a man (taken in Chicago)
4.  Oil tanks [camera tilts up]
5.  Man on bridge [zooms out]
6.  Chicago street scene (47th street?)[long medium shot and long shot]
7.  Chicago skyline and trains
8.  Chicago dock [tilts down to reveal people]
9.  Kids eating ice cream (taken in DC?) [tilt up]
10. Chicago street scene with signs
11. Chicago skyline (dusk?)
12. Boy playing guitar
13. Night scene of cars and skyscraper (Palmolive Building?) [camera tilts up from cars to skyscraper]
14. "Doggonit" (Boy sitting on car) Pre-World War II Chicago scene [camera starts still then tilts up]
15. Man with coffee cup (Roosevelt Rudd) (camera zooms out to reveal delicatessen sign)

Tape Two:

Contains 25 photos from the collection of Frank Marshall Davis:

1.  Boy, taken by FMD [video camera close up]
2.  American Negro Exposition, 1940, FMD at left [longshot of seated group and closeup of FMD]
3.  Jack Conroy, FMD and Stew Ingstrom, 1936
4.  Lens Camera Club, 1943, Chicago, with FMD seated. [zoom out from FMD to group]
5.  FMD, left, and two men at radio, 1944 [camera tilt up]
6.  Lena Horne, "Stormy Weather" publicity still
7.  FMD at Associated Negro Press, 1940's [medium shot]
8.  Jimmy Lunceford Orchestra [long shot]
9.  Jimmy Lunceford portrait
10. Chicago Star poster [camera tilts down, two shots of Hirsch, FMD photos on poster]
11. Nude woman in pose, taken by FMD [camera tilts up]
12. Seated nude, taken by FMD
13. Kneeling nude, taken by FMD
14. Reclining nude, taken by FMD
15. Stream, taken by FMD [camera tilts up]
16. FMD portrait, 1951, Honolulu
17. FMD standing at back of pickup with boxes, same period
18. Hawaii beach, taken by FMD, circa 1950's
19. Waikiki beach, taken by FMD [camera pans right)
20. FMD at bandstand, Honolulu
21. Hawaii "Reds"
22. Trummy Young (left) and two players), circa 1950's
23. Trummy Young (top left) and group conferring around piano
24. Trummy Young with trombone
25. Woman with cigarette, taken by FMD

Tape Three:

Contains 32 photos and clippings from the Frank Marshall Davis Collection.

1. Photo: Steve Murin and Evelyn with leis.
2. Clipping: "Speakin' 'Bout Sports" by Frank Boganey (pen name of FMD), The Gary American, 1930's.
3. Clipping: "Touring the World" by FMD, Saturday Review, 1932.
4. Clipping: "Law in Honolulu" editorial on the Massie Case, Atlanta Daily World, 5/2/1932.
5. Newspaper photo: no information
6. Letter to FMD from Negro Peoples Committee on Spanish refugee relief, 5/4/1939.
7. Photo: Portrait of a woman by FMD, [camera close-up]
8. Clipping: "Color Bar Fought by Whites" headline from The Pittsburgh Courier, Chicago Edition
9. Clipping: "Big Town Talk" by Lucius Jones - review of FMD poetry, Atlanta daily World, 1930's
10. Clipping: "Preface" by Consuelo C. Young - review of "Through Sepia Eyes" by FMD, Chicago Defender, 10/1938.
11. Clipping: Newspaper photo of FMD, possibly from the review in the Chicago Defender, 10/1938.
12. Clipping: "Ex-Arkansas Cityan Writes New Volume of Poetry," Arkansas City Daily Traveller, 10/1938.
13. Clipping: "Dustin' Off the News" by Lucius C Harper - review of FMD poems, Chicago Defender, 9/3/1938.
14. Clipping: "Book Notes" by C.E. Rogers - review of "I Am the American Negro" by FMD, note says "from the Communist Press", 1937.
15. Clipping: "Says Few Modern Poets Surpass Frank M. Davis" by Dan Burley - review of "I Am the American Negro," Chicago Defender, 5/8/1937.
16. Clipping: "Noted Editor Says Poet Singing 'Epochal Songs,'" California Eagle, 8/1937.
17. Clipping: "Noted Editor Lauds Frank Davis Poems," Chicago Bee, 8/1937.
18. Clipping: "Flower of Darkness," review of "I Am the American Negro," New York Herald Tribune, 4/11/1937.
19. Clipping: "Cynicism and Rapture Found in Volume," review of "I Am the American Negro," New York Amsterdam News, 2/27/1937.
20. Clipping: Ad for "Bronzeville Brevities," WJJD radio program featuring Frank Marshall Davis, 10/1945.
21. Clipping: "New Program on WJJD Hits," article on "Bronzeville Brevities," 10/20/1945 [also camera closeup].
22. Clipping: Review of "47th Street" by Frank Marshall Davis.
23. Letter from Carl Van Vechten asking for a copy of "47th Street," 9/20/1948.
24. Letter from Carl Murphy, President, Afro-American Newspapers, on the publication of "47th Street," 7/9/1948 [camera tilts down].
25. Clipping: "Chicago Negro Poet in a New Book of Verse," review of "47th Street," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/15/1948 [with camera closeup].
26. Clipping: "Seven of Merit," review of "47th Street," Saturday Review of Literature, 11/27/1948.
27. Clipping: Newspaper reproduction of the cover of "47th Street,"[including extreme closeup].
28. Clipping: Newspaper photo of FMD and wife, Helen.
29. Clipping: Newspaper photo of FMD and wife, Helen, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 12/14/1948.
30. Clipping: "Negro Editor Finds Hawaii is Tolerant, Some Discrimination," Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 12/14/1948.
31. Clipping: "Davis, ANP Editor to Hawaii," 1948.
32. Clipping: "Executive Editor of ANP Is Due Tonight," Honolulu Advertiser, 12/8/1948.

Tape Four:

Contains 26 photos and clippings from the Frank Marshall Davis Collection

1.  Poster for Hawaii Pacific String Quintet ("Group he plays with") [Close-up of photo].
2.  Early Frank Marshall Davis portrait.
3.  Portrait of Duke Ellington.
4.  Portrait of Eddie South and band.
5.  Portrait of Louis Armstrong (1932)[Extreme close-up].
6.  Portrait of Cab Calloway.
7.  Portrait of Langston Hughes.
8.  Frank Marshall Davis at desk, ca. late 1940's.
9.  Clipping: "A Passage to Hawaii," article by FMD in "Crisis Magazine," November, 1949.
10. "Negro Trumpeter," by Langston Hughes, inscribed to Frank Marshall Davis.
11. Clipping: Photo of Frank Marshall Davis and Buck Buchwach, 1948.
12. Clipping: "Democracy Hawaiian Style," article by FMD.
13. Clipping: "Democracy Hawaiian Style," article by FMD.
14. Clipping: "Hawaiian Harlem Proves Sore Spot." article by FMD, January 1949.
15. Photo: "Negro People's Assembly for a Fourth Term Roosevelt," includes FMD, 1944.
16. Cover for Lens Camera Club exhibition booklet, October, 1943 [Camera tilts down].
17. Clipping: "Davis Replies to Gillespie in Three-Part Controversy," article by FMD.
18. Clipping: "Dizzy Gillespie Replies to Critics of His Music," article by Dizzy Gilliespie.
19. Photo of FMD and Helen Davis, 1947.
20. Photo of FMD and Helen Davis, 1963.
21. Portrait of FMD in striped shirt, Chicago, 1948.
22. Photo of FMD swim suit, 1949.
23. Photo of FMD, Chicago, 1935.
24. Portrait of FMD, 1947-48.
25. Portrait of FMD, c.1970's.
26. Photo of FMD and daughter

Tape Five:

Contains 20 photos and clippings from the Frank Marshall Davis Collection.

1.  Portrait of FMD's mother, c.1924.
2.  Photo of FMD, Atlanta, 1931.
3.  Photo of FMD, age 4.
4.  Portrait of FMD, c.1970's
5.  Portrait of  FMD, high school graduation, 1923.
6.  Photo of FMD at Associated Negro Press, Chicago, 1946.
7.  Photo of FMD, Helen Davis and baby, c.1950 [ Camera tilts down].
8.  Photo of FMD's step-father with unidentified woman,
9.  Photo of FMD, age 9.
10. Portrait of FMD, c.1970's.
11. Photo of FMD and unidentified woman, c.1970's.
12. Portrait of FMD, c.1970's.
13. Clipping: Portrait of FMD next to poetry, National Negro Digest, May, 1937.
14. Clipping: Review of "I Am the American Negro," Atlanta Daily Word, March 16, 1937.
15. Clipping: Review of "Black Man's Verse," Baltimore Afro-American, November 16, 1935 [camera tilts down, close-up of jazz musicians].
16. Clipping: "Negro Poets Hit Fascist Creed," Daily Worker, October, 1943.
17. Flyer: American Youth for Democracy Town Hall Meeting, December, 1943 [camera tilts down].
18. Clipping: "Civil Liberities Dinner Gains Wide Support," The Sentinel [camera tilts down].
19. Portrait of Richard Wright by FMD, 1945.
20. Clipping: Photo of Langston Hughes, Chicago Sun Book Week, December 3, 1944.

The program was never completed because Davis died during production.