Blackwell, Charles

Description

Title: Blackwell, Charles
Creator: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Contributor: Blackwell, Charles
Published / Created: 1955 July 5
Publication Place: New York
Abstract: Slide numbers 1734, 1737, 1738, 1739, 1740, 1741, 1743, 1745, 1746, 1747, 1748. Image set number LXXXVIIc. Image 1734 depicts Blackwell wearing a wrapper (also known as a lappa) of the Fante (also known as Mfantsefo). Image 1737-1741 depict him wearing a sabador from Sengal. Image 1743-1748 depict him wearing traditional Tutsi dress (referred to as Watusi)
Description: Stamped on verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Extent: 11 slides
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. Portraits
Container / Volume: Box 225

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.