DescriptionNational Negro Business League Executive Committee LCCN2014688320.jpg	English: Title: National Negro Business League Executive Committee Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Date	circa 1910 date QS:P,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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The tenth convention of the National Negro Business League was held at the Palm Garden Theatre, New York City from August 17, 1910 to August 19, 1910. It appears that the sitting figures may be executives committee members from earlier years.

• https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91052311/1910-09-03/ed-1/seq-6/
• https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83016810/1910-09-10/ed-1/seq-2/

Standing from left to right are:

• Sumner Alexander Furniss (1874-1953)
• Emmett Jay Scott (1873-1957)
• Unidentified
• Unidentified
• Unidentified

Sitting from left to right are:

• Possibly Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856-1928)
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)
• Cyrus Field Adams (1858-1942)
• Most likely Giles Beecher Jackson (1853-1924)
• Possibly Gilbert C. Harris (1855-1921)

The sitting figures appear to be committee members from previous years.

• J. C. Napier, chairman, Nashville, Tennessee
• Dr. Samuel Edward Courtney, M.D. (1865-1941), Boston, Massachusetts
• Dr. Sumner Alexander Furniss, M.D. (1874-1953), Indianapolis, Indiana
• W. L. Taylor, Richmond, Virginia
• J. C. Jackson, Lexington, Kentucky
• Mathew McFarlan Lewey (1844-1935), Pensacola, Florida
• Eugene Parker Booze (1878-1939), Colorado Springs, Colorado
• J. E. Bush, Little Rock, Arkansas
• Robert C. Owens, Los Angeles, California
• R. E. Jones, New Orleans, Louisiana

• Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856-1928), New York, Chairman
• Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), Alabama
• Edward Elder Cooper (1859-1908), Washington
• Gilbert C. Harris (1855-1921), Boston
• Louis F. Baldwin, Boston
• W. H. Jones, Chicago
• Isaiah T. Jones, Mississippi

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