BEIN JWJ Zan H874 931d Copy 1: Signed by the author. Presentation inscription to Carl Van Vechten., BEIN JWJ Zan H874 931d Copy 2: Signed by the author. Presentation inscription to James Weldon Johnson., "One hundred copies printed ... for private distribution only. Cover design by Zell Ingram. Frontispiece by Amy Spingarn. Handmade paper by Dard Hunter"--Colophon., and Poems.
BEIN JWJ W Op56 Copy 2: Bookplate: Carl Van Vechten. Autograph: Langston Hughes: 4:46., BEIN JWJ W Op56 Copy 2: Bookplate of Carl Van Vechten: 17:2; 18:2., 1923-July 1929 have subtitle: A journal of Negro life., Vols. 1-27, 1923-1949. 1v., and SML: Index to v. 1-27 is Kraus reprint 1971.
Pyramid Club (Organization : Philadelphia, Pa.), author
Call Number:
JWJ A +998
Container / Volume:
1941-1947/1948
Image Count:
331
Resource Type:
text
Alternative Title:
Pictorial album
Description:
BEIN JWJ A +P998: Autograph: Dr. Langston Hughes: 1944 (page 42)., BEIN JWJ A +P998: From the Richard Merkin papers: 1945, 1947/1948., BEIN JWJ A +P998: Autograph: Dr. Leroy H. Jenkins, 1945: 1945 (cover)., BEIN JWJ A +P998: Stamp on covers: Dr. L.H. Jenkins, 2346 No. 25th St., Philadelphia: 1947/1948., October 1941; title from cover., and 1947-48.
Publisher:
Pyramid Club
Subject (Geographic):
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia
Subject (Name):
Pyramid Club (Organization : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, African American men, Societies and clubs, and African American women
For medium voice and piano., First line: De railroad bridge is a sad song in de air., Illustrated title page in brown, black, and white; design by Mordi depicts a Black man, with head thrown back, standing in the foreground; a railroad track winds to a country house in the distance., and Advertisement for "New songs by Jacques Wolfe" (with his portrait and musical excerpts) on p. [6].
Publisher:
Robbins Music Corp
Subject (Name):
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 and Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Subject (Topic):
Songs (Medium voice) with piano and African Americans
BEIN JWJ Zan H874 Zz966K: Unnumbered copy. Original wrappers. Presentation inscription from the author to Langston Hughes, 22-10-1966 [October 22, 1966]. Slip of brown paper pasted on p. [2] of wrapper: "Salma Haffar Kouzbari, P.O. Box 3570, Damascus, Siria.", "Il a été tiré à part 30 exemplaires numérotés de 1 à 30 qui constituent l'édition originale"--T.p. verso., and "Imprimerie spéciale des Paragraphes littéraires de Paris"--Colophon.
The collection consists of seven portrait drawings of noted African Americans and Haitians by the artist Amy Einstein Spingarn. The sitters include scientist George Washington Carver (1935) and authors Langston Hughes (1930), Zora Neale Hurston (circa 1935), James Weldon Johnson (undated), René Piquion (undated), George S. Schuyler (1933), and Philippe Thoby-Marcelin (undated). The portrait of Carver is pastel on paper; the others are charcoal and graphite on paper. Each portrait is identified by the artist's inscriptions and signature
Description:
Amy Einstein Spingarn was born in New York on January 29, 1883, the daughter of American businessman and manufacturer David L. Einstein (1839-1909) and Caroline Fatman Einstein (1852-1910). In 1905 she married Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939), a Columbia University literature professor and a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In addition to being an artist herself, Amy Einstein Spingarn was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and supported the work of many black artists and writers; she also served on the board of directors of the NAACP for nearly forty years. Spingarn died at her home, Troutbeck, in Amenia, New York, on June 25, 1980., Title devised by cataloger., and Captions in English.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943, Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967, Hurston, Zora Neale, Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, Piquion, René, Schuyler, George S. 1895-1977 (George Samuel),, Spingarn, Amy Einstein, 1883-1980., and Thoby-Marcelin, Philippe, 1904-1975
