Tom Nebbia Photographs Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Mss-0317

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains nineteen photographs on 2 CD-ROMs (1 original and 1 user copy) depicting four subjects; photographic achievement awards, Jimmy Byrnes meeting with Bernard Baruch, views of low income housing of Columbia, SC, and various rural scenes in Georgetown, SC area. The photographic achievement awards were from the "National Press Photographers Association," which occurred around 1955. They are L-R: Tom Nebbia, Doug Martin, and Charles Taylor, all staff photographers for The State-Record newspaper in Columbia, SC. The photographs of Byrnes and Baruch were taken at the home of Byrnes in Columbia, SC after his resignation as US Secretary of State (post 1947). Mr. Nebbia was asked to photograph the social order to document living conditions. The Georgetown, SC rural scenes were taken circa 1955. One photo in which a young boy can be seen running away with shoes (belonging to Mr. Nebbia), won him a prize in Popular Photography magazine.

Dates

1955, undated

Creator

Nebbia, Tom. (other_unmapped, Person)

Biographical / Historical

Tom Nebbia was born in Rochester, New York in 1929. He was a Korean War combat photographer, 1950-1951, a staff photographer for The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, 1953-1958, a staff/freelance photographer for National Geographic, 1958-1966, and thereafter until 1985 worked freelance.