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A Temple project brings new life to Philadelphia photojournalist John W. Mosley’s negatives

They are among the hundreds of images and 300,000 negatives captured by mid-20th century photographer John W. Mosley at the original Pyramid Club, a social network of Philadelphia’s prominent Black men who, from the late 1930s through the early 1960s, met regularly in a Girard Avenue brownstone. Blockson Collection associate archivist Leslie Willis-Lowry has spent hours scanning, captioning, and uploading Mosley’s negatives into a digital repository of his work that lives on the Temple University’s Library website.
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