Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
Person
Found in 185 Collections and/or Records:
Stage Door Canteen, 8 April 1943
File — Box: 1, Folder: 54
Identifier: 01_54_1943
Scope and Contents
2 8x10 photographs featuring Langston Hughes, Terry Keane and Helen Ford at the nightclub for servicement during WWII.
Dates:
8 April 1943
Stage Door Canteen, 1943
File — Box: 4, Folder: 54
Identifier: 04_54_1943
Scope and Contents
1 5x7 print of Langston Hughes at the Stage Door Canteen and 2 8x10 prints of Fritzi Scheff and Richmond Barthe at the Stage Door Canteen. Originals at the Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Dates:
1943
The Harlem Madonna, 1940
File — Box: 1, Folder: 44
Identifier: 01_44_1940
Scope and Contents
1 5x7 photograph that was used as a Christmas greeting from Fania Marinoff and Carl Van Vechten (mother and child not identified)
Dates:
1940
The Proposed James Weldon Johnson Memorial by Carl Van Vechten. Reprinted from Opportunity, Journal of Negro Life, February 1940
File — Box: 9, Folder: 18
Identifier: 09_18_1940
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Photographs, sheet music, playbills, prints, publications, sound recordings, programs, souvenir books, correspondence, drawings, broadsides, articles, ephemera, manuscripts, and journal issues relating to the theater, music, dance, and literature. The photographic portion of the collection consists primarily of Carl Van Vechten's portraits of influential actors, writers, and artists of the New York stage. Amongst the photographic prints are rare portraits of notable African American authors,...
Dates:
February 1940
Turquese, [14 January 1935]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 32
Identifier: 01_32_1035
Scope and Contents
1 3x5 postcard of the dancer as Chief Barab "The King in Ky-Kur-Kor."
Dates:
[14 January 1935]
Unidentified man, undated
File — Box: 3, Folder: 69
Identifier: 03_69_19uu
Scope and Contents
1 3x5 postcard of unidentified man
Dates:
undated
Voodoo Service by Beoffrey Holder, undated
File — Box: 3, Folder: 70
Identifier: 03_70_19uu
Scope and Contents
1 3x4 postcard of the painting "Voodoo Service."
Dates:
undated
Walter White, 1932
File — Box: 4, Folder: 37
Identifier: 04_37_1932
Scope and Contents
1 5x7 print of photograph by Carl Van Vechten of the Executive Secretary of the NAACP.
Dates:
1932
W.C. Handy, undated
File — Box: 5, Folder: 13
Identifier: 05_13_19uu
Scope and Contents
1 5x7 photograph of the musician/composer
Dates:
undated
W.C. Handy, Dean of Negro Composers. Review of autobiography by Carl Van Vechten in the New York Herald Tribune, 1941-07-06
File — Box: 9, Folder: 19
Identifier: 09_19_1941
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Photographs, sheet music, playbills, prints, publications, sound recordings, programs, souvenir books, correspondence, drawings, broadsides, articles, ephemera, manuscripts, and journal issues relating to the theater, music, dance, and literature. The photographic portion of the collection consists primarily of Carl Van Vechten's portraits of influential actors, writers, and artists of the New York stage. Amongst the photographic prints are rare portraits of notable African American authors,...
Dates:
1941-07-06
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- Archival Object 184
- Collection 1
- Subject
- African Americans -- Portraits. 85
- Singers -- Portraits. 15
- African American entertainers -- Portraits. 12
- African American authors -- Portraits. 8
- Musicians -- Portraits. 7
- Actresses -- Portraits. 5
- Dancers -- United States. 5
- Actors -- Portraits. 4
- African American periodicals. 4
- African Americans -- Civil Rights 4
- Educators -- Portraits. 3
- African American art 2
- Holt, Nora Douglas, 1885-1974. 2
- Music -- United States -- 20th century. 2
- Musicals -- Lead sheets. 2
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 2
- Popular music --- United States -- Lead sheets. 2
- African Americans 1
- African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877. 1
- African Americans -- Songs and music. 1
- Artists -- United States -- Portraits. 1
- Authors, American -- Portraits. 1
- Blues (Music) 1
- Dance music. 1
- Entertainers -- United States -- Portraits. 1
- Manuscripts 1
- Musical films -- Lead sheets. 1
- Musicians -- United States. 1
- Patriotic music -- United States -- Lead sheets. 1
- Poets, American. 1
- Popular music -- United States. 1
- Slave bills of sale. 1
- Slavery -- United States -- Sources. 1
- Slavery -- United States. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Songs and music. 1 ∧ less
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