Valerie Harris
Illustrating "The Crisis" Pt. 2
“Dear Miss Wheeler, I am returning herewith one of the pictures which you made for Jessie Fauset’s story…. “ Laura’s work as an...
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Laura Wheeler Waring Biography Blog
Valerie Harris
May 284 min
Illustrating The Crisis: Pt 1
Laura Wheeler Waring was one of the first women artists to regularly contribute illustrations to The Crisis magazine.
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Valerie Harris
May 143 min
After Paris? Enter: W.E.B. DuBois and The Crisis
Laura Wheeler Waring begins a long association with W.E.B. DuBois as an illustrator for The Crisis magazine.
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Valerie Harris
May 72 min
Building Blocks for Black Heritage Preservation: The Conference, The Mission
The movement to preserve Black Heritage Sites is underway in Philadelphia! Storytelling and Biography as Cultural Preservation
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Valerie Harris
Apr 24 min
"Darn This War!" The dream summer in Paris ends abruptly
Settling into her summer sojourn, Laura began plotting her version of the grand tour. “From Paris I intended to go to Geneva and then to...
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Valerie Harris
Mar 263 min
Sisters Abroad: Laura Wheeler Waring and Jessie Fauset, Paris, 1914
Although Laura was now in Paris independent of her Academy classmates, she was not alone for long. Visiting Paris at the time were two...
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