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African American entertainers -- Portraits.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 12 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

Eartha Kitt, [19 October 1952]

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1, Folder: 10
Identifier: 02_10_1952

Eartha Kitt, [19 October 1952]

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: 02_11_1952

Eartha Kitt, 19 October 1952

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1, Folder: 9
Identifier: 02_09_1952

Eartha Kitt, [21 September 1954]

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1, Folder: 26
Identifier: 02_26_1954

Ethel Ayler and Melvin Stewart, [10 June 1957]

 File — Box 3: Series Series 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: 03_01_1957
Scope and Contents

2 3x5 postcards; actors; written on back "Ethel Ayler and Melvin Stewart, Simply Heaven."

Dates: [10 June 1957]

Ethel Waters, 22 June 1933

 File — Box 1: Series Series 1, Folder: 25
Identifier: 01_25_1933
Scope and Contents

4 8x10 photographs of the singer/composer. "Ethel Waters sings Underneath the Harlem Moom."

Dates: 22 June 1933

Jimmie Daniels, 29 January 1963

 File — Box 3: Series Series 1, Folder: 52
Identifier: 03_52_1963

Mattiwilda Dobbs, [26 January 1955]

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1, Folder: 29
Identifier: 02_29_1955

Mattiwilda Dobbs, [26 January 1955]

 File — Box 2: Series Series 1, Folder: 30
Identifier: 02_30_1955