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African American authors -- Portraits.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 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

Charles Perry, 14 March 1962

 File — Box 3: Series Series 1, 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: Series Series 1, Folder: 48
Identifier: 03_48_1962

Durward Collins, Jr., 5 September 1962

 File — Box 3: Series Series 1, Folder: 49
Identifier: 03_49_1962

John A. Williams, 3 July 1962

 File — Box 3: Series Series 1, Folder: 47
Identifier: 03_47_1962

Louis Peterson, undated

 File — Box 3: Series Series 1, 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

William Melvin Kelley, 23 April 1963

 File — Box 3: Series Series 1, Folder: 55
Identifier: 03_55_1963