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Peter P. Jones

American photographer and filmmaker

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Peter P. Jones was a photographer and filmmaker in the United States. He established the Peter P. Jones Film Company in Chicago in 1914 and filmed African American subjects including vaudeville acts and the 1915 National Half Century Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee. He also filmed community documentaries, chronicling contemporary African American life and social organizations.

According to a front page story in the Chicago Defender, Jones established his film company with funding from South American investors. The company had an office at 3849 State Street. His 1916 film Re-Birth of a Nation was a response to The Birth of a Nation.

Jones photographed Booker T. Washington. He also photographed Henry O. Tanner, Bert Williams, Aida Overton Walker, and W. E. B. Du Bois. The Slacker

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