Carpenter, Thelma

Description

Title: Carpenter, Thelma
Creator: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Contributor: Carpenter, Thelma, vocalist
Published / Created: 1949 March 9
Abstract: Carpenter wears a Seminole costume, and a Hopi/Navajo silver squash blossom necklace.
Description: Stamp on verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / 146 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission.
Extent: 11 photographic prints
approx. 24.5 x 18 cm.
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 86 | Folder 1456

Format: still image
Genre: Photographic prints
Photographs
Studio portraits
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Name): Carpenter, Thelma, vocalist
Subject (Topic): African American actresses
African American entertainers
African American singers
Harlem Renaissance

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.