Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
Person
Found in 185 Collections and/or Records:
Carl Van Vechten memorial collection of arts and letters
Collection
Identifier: MS-91
Scope and Contents
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. Although not limited to materials related to African American artists and their works, the collection includes a large number of materials documenting African American artistic endeavors during the early and mid-twentieth century. The collection...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1880-; Other: Date acquired: 04/09/1986
Carl Van Vechten portrait by Ladybird Cleveland, undated
File — Box: 5, Folder: 35
Identifier: 05_35_19uu
Scope and Contents
1 3x4 print of portrait by Ladybird Cleveland.
Dates:
undated
[Carl Van Vechten with his models], 1927
File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Identifier: 06_05_1927
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:
1927
[Carl Van Vechten with his models] a caricature by Miguel Covarrubias, 1927
File — Box: 4, Folder: 18
Identifier: 04_18_1927
Scope and Contents
1 5x7 print of caricature
Dates:
1927
Charles Perry, 14 March 1962
File — Box: 3, Folder: 44
Identifier: 03_44_1962
Scope and Contents
1 8x10 photograph of the author. Written on back: "Author of Portrait of a Young Man Drowning"
Dates:
14 March 1962
Charles S. Johnson, [25 April 1947]
File — Box: 4, Folder: 57
Identifier: 04_57_1947
Scope and Contents
1 5x7 photograph; President elect of Fisk University
Dates:
[25 April 1947]
Chester Himes, [9 March 1946]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 56
Identifier: 01_56_1946
Scope and Contents
2 3x5 postcards
Dates:
[9 March 1946]
Chester Himes, 10 July 1962
File — Box: 3, Folder: 48
Identifier: 03_48_1962
Scope and Contents
1 8x10 photograph
Dates:
10 July 1962
Countee Cullen, 1941
File — Box: 4, Folder: 50
Identifier: 04_50_1941
Scope and Contents
1 5x7 print of the photograph of the poet.
Dates:
1941
Crisis, The, February 1940
File — Box: 6, Folder: 15
Identifier: 06_15_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
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- Type
- 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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