Bricktop at Paris, France

Description

Title: Bricktop at Paris, France
Creator: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Contributor: Bricktop, 1894-1984
Published / Created: 1934 June 22
Publication Place: Paris
Abstract: Bricktop was the stage name of Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, also known as Ada DuCongé.
Description: On verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten, 148 Central Park West. Cannot be reproduced without permission.
Extent: 25 x 19 cm.
4 photographic prints
b&w
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title: Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Collection / Other Creator: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Collection Date: 1800-1971
Collection Note: Series IV. Photographs. Selected Photographic Prints. Photographic Prints. Portraits
Container / Volume: Box 85 | Folder 1429

Format: still image
Genre: Photographic prints
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Name): Bricktop, 1894-1984
Subject (Topic): African American entertainers
African American women singers.

Access: Public
Rights: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; permission of the Trust is required to publish Van Vechten photographs in any format. To contact the Van Vechten Trust, email vanvechtentrust@gmail.com.
Citation: Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.