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Billy Strayhorn, [19 August 1958]

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 11
Identifier: 03_11_1958

Black and Tan Fantasies, 1929

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 24
Identifier: 04_24_1929
Scope and Contents

1 8x10 print of photograph taken on a film set in 1929. Duke Ellington and Carl Van Vechten are holding hands. Photographer is unknown.

Dates: 1929

Bobby Short, 3 January 1962

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 43
Identifier: 03_43_1962

Bookjacket. The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer by Haldane MacFall, [1927?]

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 30
Identifier: 09_30_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?]

Bookjacket. The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer by Haldane McFall, [1925?]

 File — Box: 9, Folder: 29
Identifier: 09_29_1925
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: [1925?]

Camilla Williams, [31 May 1946]

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 58
Identifier: 01_58_1946
Scope and Contents

1 3x5 postcard of the opera singer with Jacob Epstein's bust of Paul Robeson.

Dates: [31 May 1946]

Caricature of Carl Van Vechten, 1925

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 2
Identifier: 06_02_1925
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: 1925

Caricature of Carl Van Vechten by Miguel Covarrubias, 1923

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 1
Identifier: 06_01_1923
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: 1923

Caricature of Carl Van Vechten by Miguel Covarrubias, 1931

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 7
Identifier: 07_07_1931
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: 1931

Caricature of Carl Van Vechten by Miguel Covarrubias, undated

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 8
Identifier: 06_08_19uu
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: undated

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Covarrubias, Miguel (Covarrubias Duclaud, Miguel) 16
Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977. 11
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. 5
Kitt, Eartha. 5
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Carroll, Diahann. 4
Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003. 4
Price, Leontyne. 4
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976. 4
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993. 3
Bailey, Pearl 3
Belafonte, Harry, 1927- 3
Cleveland, Lady Bird 3
Dobbs, Mattiwilda. 3
Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993. 3
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. 3
Hurston, Zora Neale. 3
Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972. 3
Tynes, Margaret 3
Allen, Sanford. 2
Ayler, Ethel, 1934- 2
Browne, Roscoe Lee. 2
Curtis, Bob, 1925- 2
Epstein, Jacob 2
Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984. 2
Holder, Leo 2
Hughes, Langston (Hughes, James Mercer Langston) 2
Hyman, Earle, 1926- 2
Mercer, Mabel, 1900-1984. 2
Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949. 2
Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937 2
Williams, Billy Dee, 1937- 2
Wright, Jimmie 2
Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 2
Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971. 1
Atkinson, Edward, III 1
Atkinson, Edward. 1
Baraka, Amiri, 1934- 1
Barthé, Richmond, 1901-1989 1
Bentley, Gladys 1
Beresford, Roy Thompson 1
Clay, Omar. 1
Cole, Jimmie 1
Coleman, Leo (Dancer) 1
Collins, Durward B., Jr. 1
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1947. 1
Daniels, Jimmie. 1
Davis, Sammy, Jr., 1925-1990. 1
Dee, Ruby 1
Ellington, Edward Kennady 1
Fitzgerald, Ella 1
Ford, Helen, 1894-1982 1
Gordon, Taylor, 1893-1971. 1
Handy, W.C. (William Christopher), 1873-1958 1
Hayes, Marion. 1
Headley, Godfrey 1
Holder, Geoffrey, 1930- 1
Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959. 1
Holt, Nora Douglas, 1855-1974 1
Jackson, Annette. 1
Jackson, Raymond. 1
Jefferson, Louise E. 1
Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956 1
Johnson, Grace Nail, 1885-1976 1
Jones, James Earl. 1
Keane, Terry 1
Kelley, William Melvin, 1937- 1
Larsen, Nella 1
Louis, Joe, 1914-1981. 1
Marinoff, Fania 1
Matthews, Edward, 1904-1954. 1
McTeer, Kenneth. 1
Middleton, Velma 1
Miles, Lizzie (Landreaux, Elizabeth Mary) 1
Murphy, Dudley, 1897-1968 1
Perkins, Sammy 1
Perry, Charles, 1924-1969. 1
Peterson, Dorothy, 1897-1979 1
Peterson, Louis, 1922- 1
Petry, Ann, 1908-1997 1
Sands, Diana 1
Scheff, Fritzi, 1879-1954 1
Short, Bobby. 1
Stage Door Canteen 1
Stewart, Melvin. 1
Strayhorn, Billy 1
Turquese 1
Van Dyke, Henry, 1928- 1
Van Vechten, Carl 1
Verrett, Shirley 1
Warfield, William 1
Washington, Fredi, 1903-1994 1
West, Dorothy, 1907-1998 1
White, Carl Darrow, 1927-1975 1
White, Walter 1
Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981 1
Williams, Camilla, 1919-2012 1
Williams, John A., 1925-2015 1
Wilson, Ellis, 1899-1977 1
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