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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
Carmen De Lavallade, [3 March 1955]
File — Box: 2, Folder: 32
Identifier: 02_32_1955
Scope and Contents
7 3x5 postcards of the dancer/choreographer
Dates:
[3 March 1955]
Carmen De Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder, [3 March 1955]
File — Box: 2, Folder: 33
Identifier: 02_33_1955
Scope and Contents
1 3x5 postcard
Dates:
[3 March 1955]
Carmen De Lavallade and Leo Holder, [26 December 1958]
File — Box: 3, Folder: 20
Identifier: 03_20_1958
Scope and Contents
2 3x5 phostcards of the dancer with her son.
Dates:
[26 December 1958]
Carol Brice, 10 April 1947
File — Box: 1, Folder: 63
Identifier: 01_63_1947
Scope and Contents
6 8x10 photographs of the singer
Dates:
10 April 1947
Charles Blackwell, [5 July] 1955
File — Box: 2, Folder: 52
Identifier: 02_52_1955
Scope and Contents
8 3x5 postcards of the dancer
Dates:
[5 July] 1955
Charles Gilpin, [1920]
File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Identifier: 04_06_1920
Scope and Contents
1 5x7 print of the actor as he appeared in Emperor Jones in 1920 from an article.
Dates:
[1920]
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
Clara Smith, 1925
File — Box: 4, Folder: 11
Identifier: 04_11_1925
Scope and Contents
2 5x7 portraits of jazz vocalist, Clara Smith.
Dates:
1925
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- Singers -- Portraits. 26
- African American entertainers -- Portraits. 17
- Dancers -- United States. 13
- African American authors -- Portraits. 12
- Actresses -- Portraits. 11
- Musicians -- Portraits. 11
- Actors -- Portraits. 10
- Educators -- Portraits. 4
- African Americans -- Civil Rights 3
- Artists -- Portraits. 3
- Holt, Nora Douglas, 1885-1974. 2
- African American periodicals. 1
- African Americans 1
- Artists -- United States -- Portraits. 1
- Music -- United States -- 20th century. 1
- Musicals -- Lead sheets. 1
- Musicians -- United States. 1
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1
- Physicians -- Portraits. 1
- Poets, American. 1
- Popular music --- United States -- Lead sheets. 1
- Slavery -- United States. 1 ∧ less
- Language
- English 3
- Names
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. 84
- Van Vechten, Carl 46
- Carroll, Diahann. 5
- De Lavallade, Carmen, 1931- 4
- Holder, Geoffrey, 1930- 4
- Holder, Leo 4
- Kitt, Eartha. 4
- Price, Leontyne. 4
- Ailey, Alvin. 3
- Dobbs, Mattiwilda. 3
- Gibson, Althea, 1927-2003. 3
- Hughes, Langston (Hughes, James Mercer Langston) 3
- Tynes, Margaret 3
- Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977. 3
- Ayler, Ethel, 1934- 2
- Curtis, Bob, 1925- 2
- Dee, Ruby 2
- Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993. 2
- Holt, Nora Douglas, 1855-1974 2
- Hyman, Earle, 1926- 2
- Jackson, Mahalia, 1911-1972. 2
- Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938. 2
- Mercer, Mabel, 1900-1984. 2
- Abrahams, Peter, 1919- 1
- Addison, Adele. 1
- Allen, Betty, 1927-2009 1
- Allen, James L. (James Latimer), 1907-1977 1
- Allen, Sanford. 1
- Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971. 1
- Atkinson, Edward, III 1
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. 1
- Baraka, Amiri, 1934- 1
- Barthé, Richmond, 1901-1989 1
- Bentley, Gladys 1
- Blackwell, Charles 1
- Boatwright, McHenry, 1928-1994 1
- Brice, Carol, 1916-1985 1
- Brown, Debria. 1
- Bruguiere, Francis Joseph 1
- Burton, Miriam. 1
- Carlis, John H. 1
- Carter, John, 1932-1981. 1
- Chamberlain, Elwyn M. 1
- Clay, Omar. 1
- Cleveland, Lady Bird 1
- Cleveland, Patricia. 1
- Cole, Jimmie 1
- Collins, Durward B., Jr. 1
- Collins, Georgia. 1
- Connelly, James Hargis 1
- Cortor, Eldzier, 1916- 1
- Cullen, Countee, 1903-1947. 1
- Daniels, Jimmie. 1
- Davis, Ossie. 1
- Davy, Gloria. 1
- De Lavallade, Elaine. 1
- Demby, William 1
- Eaton, Roy, 1930- 1
- Fitzgerald, Ella 1
- Gilpin, Charles S. (Charles Sidney), 1878-1930 1
- Grist, Reri 1
- Hayes, Marion. 1
- Hill, Bertha Chippie, 1905-1950. 1
- Himes, Chester B., 1909-1984. 1
- Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959. 1
- Jefferson, Louise E. 1
- Johnson, Louis, 1930- 1
- Jones, James Earl. 1
- Jones, Laurence Clifton, 1884-1975. 1
- Kay, Ulysses, 1917-1995. 1
- Kelley, William Melvin, 1937- 1
- Lamming, George, 1927- 1
- Larsen, Nella 1
- Lee, Alyne Dumas, 1911-1970 1
- Louis, Joe, 1914-1981. 1
- Matthews, Edward, 1904-1954. 1
- Mauriber, Saul. 1
- McFerrin, Robert, 1921-2006. 1
- McNeil, Claudia. 1
- Middleton, Velma 1
- Mittelhölzer, Edgar. 1
- Moore, Leon. 1
- Nurse, Godfrey, 1888- 1
- O’Neal, Frederick, 1905-1992. 1
- Perkins, Sammy 1
- Perry, Charles, 1924-1969. 1
- Peterson, Dorothy, 1897-1979 1
- Peterson, Louis, 1922- 1
- Premice, Josephine. 1
- Reading, Bertice, 1933-1991 . 1
- Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976. 1
- Robinson, A'Lelia Walker, 1885-1931 1
- Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949. 1
- Rodriguez, Percy. 1
- Sands, Diana 1
- Scheff, Fritzi, 1879-1954 1
- Scott, Harold, 1935-2006. 1
- Shirley, George. 1
- Short, Bobby. 1
- Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937 1 ∧ less
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