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Title:
[Carl Van Vechten portraits of African American women performers]Creator/Contributor:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, creator, photographer.Abstract:
Portrait photographs of African American women performers taken by New York City photographer Carl Van Vechten in the early
to mid-1950s. Includes five portraits of singer and actress Ethel Waters, two of singer Eartha Kitt, two of opera singer Reri
Grist, and one each of opera singer Mattiwilda Dobbs, singer and actress Joyce Bryant, actress and dancer Carmen de Lavallade,
actress and singer Josephine Premice, actress Diana Sands, and actress, singer, model and activist Diahann Carroll.
Date:
1938 (issued)Subject:
n-us---African American women singers -- Portraits
African American actresses -- Portraits
Chanteuses noires américaines -- Portraits
Actrices noires américaines -- Portraits
African American actresses
African American women singers
Waters, Ethel -- 1896-1977 -- Portraits
Van Vechten, Carl -- 1880-1964 -- Correspondence
Banks, Richard -- 1929- -- Correspondence
Van Vechten, Carl -- 1880-1964
Waters, Ethel -- 1896-1977
Note:
Title devised by cataloger. Dates provided by bookseller.
Photographer's name embossed on all prints: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten".
All subjects are identified in hand-written annotations.
All prints are in postcard format. Some include include correspondence from the photographer to his friend, artist Richard
Banks, likely the collector of the prints. One postcard includes message dated 1952; another is postmarked 1955; others are
undated.
Purchase from Auger Down Books ; 2022.
Carl Van Vechten portraits of African American women performers, BANC PIC 2022.050, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Type:
graphicPortrait.
portraits.
Personal correspondence.
Portraits.
Portraits.
Portraits.
Physical Description:
photoprint
15 photographs in 1 folder : gelatin silver prints ; sheets 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)
Language:
English