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Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1935 April 5
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 103 | Folder 1868
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / Cannot be reproduced without permission
Subject (Name):
Robinson-Wayne, Beatrice
Subject (Topic):
African American women, African American women singers, and Sopranos
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robinson-Wayne, Beatrice
Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1934 March 9
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 103 | Folder 1869
Image Count:
6
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Two prints formerly formed part of the Langston Hughes bequest.
Alternative Title:
Four Saints in Three Acts
Description:
Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / Cannot be reproduced without permission" In pencil verso: "Hughes Bequest.
Subject (Name):
Robinson-Wayne, Beatrice, Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, and Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989
Subject (Topic):
African American women, African American women singers, and Sopranos
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robinson-Wayne, Beatrice, as St. Theresa I in Four Saints in Three Acts, musical by Virgil Thomson with a libretto by Gertrude Stein
Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1934 March 9
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 103 | Folder 1870
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Alternative Title:
Four Saints in Three Acts
Description:
Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten / Cannot be reproduced without permission
Subject (Name):
Robinson-Wayne, Beatrice, Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946, and Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989
Subject (Topic):
African American women, African American women singers, and Sopranos
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robinson-Wayne, Beatrice, as St. Theresa I in Four Saints in Three Acts, musical by Virgil Thomson with a libretto by Gertrude Stein
Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1963 January 29
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 226
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Slide numbers 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961. Image set number CXCIIc.
Description:
Stamped: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Subject (Name):
Sands, Diana
Subject (Topic):
African American actors. and African American women
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sands, Diana
Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1963 January 29
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 226
Image Count:
30
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
Slide numbers 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991. Image set numbers. CXCIc and CXCIIIc.
Description:
Stamped: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Subject (Name):
Sands, Diana
Subject (Topic):
African American actors. and African American women
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Sands, Diana, as Adelaide Smith in Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright, play by Peter S. Feibleman
Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1964 June 24
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 226
Image Count:
7
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
No slide numbers. No image set number. Inscriptions misidentify date as June 23, 1964.
Description:
Stamped: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Subject (Topic):
African American women
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Taylor, Dorothy
Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1964 June 24
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 105 | Folder 1919
Image Count:
10
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / 146 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission.
Subject (Topic):
African American women
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Taylor, Dorothy
Creator:
Matthews, Victoria Earle
Published / Created:
[1897?]
Call Number:
JWJ Zan M433 897A
Image Count:
8
Subject (Topic):
African American women
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The awakening of the Afro-American woman : an address delivered at the annual convention of the Society of Christian Endeavor, San Francisco, July 11th, 1897.
Creator:
Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1833]
Call Number:
825.00.00.35
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
One of a series of British social caricatures lampooning the pretensions of early 19th-century middle-class Philadelphians, mainly the city's growing community of free African Americans. Influenced by an increasing fascination with American culture and a growing racism stemming from the abolition of slavery in England, the African American characters are depicted with grotesque features and manners, wearing outlandish clothes, and speaking in patois and malapropisms to be portrayed as ineptly attempting to mimic white high society. In this print the artist mocks African American vanity and the desire to look white: a well-dressed African American woman purchasing shoes at "Sambo Paley Boots & Shoe Manufacturer." The belle, portrayed with mannish features, wears a yellow bonnet with a white veil that frames her face like long straight hair. Seated, she slightly lifts her red dress to inspect the black shoe that the African American sales clerk has just placed on her large foot. She believes the shoe "is sich a bery dirty color" and does he not have any white or pink ones. The kneeling sales clerk attempts to persuade her that it may not be "handsome" to look at, but surely a "good color to wear." Another clerk with a row of boots behind him is seen in the background performing as a store sign states, the "Best Jet Blacking Sold Here." On the left, an African American couple is seen walking passed the store
Alternative Title:
New shoes
Description:
Title from caption below image. Series title appears at top of image., Prints based on an American publication from 1828-30: Clay, E.W. Life in Philadelphia., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Published by G.S. Tregear, Cheapside
Subject (Geographic):
Pennsylvania and Philadelphia.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, African American women, Afro-Americans, Clothing & dress, and Shoe stores
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The new shoes [graphic]
Creator:
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1932 April 13
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 1050
Collection Title:
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 106 | Folder 1941
Image Count:
10
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / 146 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission.
Subject (Name):
Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth (Bordentown, N.J.) and Valentine, Grace
Subject (Topic):
African American women
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Valentine, Grace
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