Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
Person
Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:
Bobby Short, 3 January 1962
File — Box: 3, Folder: 43
Identifier: 03_43_1962
Scope and Contents
2 8x10 photographs of the musician.
Dates:
3 January 1962
Carl Darrow White, [15 June 1959]
File — Box: 3, Folder: 27
Identifier: 03_27_1959
Scope and Contents
2 3x5 postcards. Written on the back of 1: "Carl Darrow White, son of Walter White named after me & Clarence Darrow. Now a leading baritone at the opera at Mainz Germany." Written on the back of the other: "Carl (for Carl Van Vechten) Darrow (for Clarence Darrow) White, singer -- son of Walter White."
Dates:
[15 June 1959]
Carl Van Vechten Collection of African-American Arts & Letters, 1853-2004
Series
Identifier: Series 1
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. 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:
1853-2004
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
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
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
Diahann Carroll, [14 March 1955]
File — Box: 2, Folder: 36
Identifier: 02_36_1955
Scope and Contents
5 3x5 postcards
Dates:
[14 March 1955]
Diahann Carroll, [14 March 1955]
File — Box: 2, Folder: 35
Identifier: 02_35_1955
Scope and Contents
6 3x5 postcards
Dates:
[14 March 1955]
Diahann Carroll, 14 March 1955
File — Box: 2, Folder: 34
Identifier: 02_34_1955
Scope and Contents
3 8x10 photographs
Dates:
14 March 1955
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- Subject: African Americans -- Portraits. X
Additional filters:
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- Archival Object 84
- Collection 1
- Subject
- 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 Americans -- Civil Rights 4
- Educators -- Portraits. 3
- African American periodicals. 2
- Holt, Nora Douglas, 1885-1974. 2
- Music -- United States -- 20th century. 2
- Musicals -- Lead sheets. 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
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 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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