Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
Person
Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:
Leontyne Price, [11 December 1951]
File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: 02_06_1951
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:
[11 December 1951]
Leontyne Price, 19 May 1953
File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Identifier: 02_13_1953
Scope and Contents
2 8x10 photographs as Bess in Porgy and Bess
Dates:
19 May 1953
Leontyne Price, [19 May 1953]
File — Box: 2, Folder: 15
Identifier: 02_15_1953
Scope and Contents
1 3x5 postcard of singer. Written on back: "Songing Sanguet's La Voyante."
Dates:
[19 May 1953]
LeRoi Jones, 3 January 1962
File — Box: 3, Folder: 42
Identifier: 03_42_1962
Scope and Contents
1 8x10 photograph of the poet, playwright and political activist.
Dates:
3 January 1962
Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton, undated
File — Box: 3, Folder: 62
Identifier: 03_62_19uu
Scope and Contents
1 3x5 photograph; musicians
Dates:
undated
Louis Peterson, undated
File — Box: 3, Folder: 68
Identifier: 03_68_19uu
Scope and Contents
1 3x5 postcard of playwright. Written on back: "who wrote Take a Giant Step."
Dates:
undated
Louise Jefferson, 4 February 1964
File — Box: 3, Folder: 59
Identifier: 03_59_1964
Scope and Contents
1 8x10 photograph of the artist.
Dates:
4 February 1964
Mabel Mercer, [28 May 1963]
File — Box: 3, Folder: 57
Identifier: 03_57_1963
Scope and Contents
2 3x5 postcards of the caberet singer.
Dates:
[28 May 1963]
Mabel Mercer, 28 May 1963
File — Box: 3, Folder: 56
Identifier: 03_56_1963
Scope and Contents
3 8x 10 photographs of the caberet singer
Dates:
28 May 1963
Mahalia Jackson, [16 April 1962]
File — Box: 3, Folder: 46
Identifier: 03_46_1962
Scope and Contents
2 3x5 postcards of the gospel singer.
Dates:
[16 April 1962]
Filtered By
- Subject: African Americans -- Portraits. X
Additional filters:
- Type
- 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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