Cleveland, Lady Bird. Eartha Kitt, circa 1954, painting

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Title: Cleveland, Lady Bird. Eartha Kitt, circa 1954, painting
Creator: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
Contributor: Ladybird Cleveland was an African American painter born in Cornelia, Georgia in 1927. Eartha (Mae) Kitt was an African American singer, dancer, actress and author.
Published / Created: 1954 October 5
Publication Place: New York
Abstract: Slide numbers 1079, 1191-1. Image set number LVIIIc.
Extent: 1 slide
2 x 2 in.
color, Kodachrome
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. Color Slides. Artwork
Container / Volume: Box 224

Format: still image
Genre: Slides (photographs)
Studio portraits
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Geographic): African American artists
African American women.
Subject (Name): Ladybird Cleveland was an African American painter born in Cornelia, Georgia in 1927. Eartha (Mae) Kitt was an African American singer, dancer, actress and author.

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.