"A hit yesterday, a hit today, a hit to-morrow, aplogies to Ku Klux Klan.", "Lyric by Al Mars. Music by Clarence Krause"--P. 3., First line: Sambo Rastus is my name., Fox trot for solo voice and piano., Publisher's advertisement for other music on p. [1] at end., and Title p. illustration of a line of white Klansmen against a black background; inset photo of "The Krause-Drewery Novelty Orchestra, Dallas, Texas."
Publisher:
Krause & Mars,
Subject (Name):
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Songs and music., and Mars, Al.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--Songs and music., Blues (Music), Foxtrots., and Songs with piano.
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 112 | Folder 2128
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Abstract:
One print formerly owned by Grace Nail Johnson.
Description:
Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / Cannot be reproduced without permission.
Subject (Name):
Lucioni, Luigi, 1900- and Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
Subject (Topic):
African American actresses, African American entertainers, African American women jazz singers, African American women singers, Artists, Blues (Music), and Harlem Renaissance
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 97 | Folder 1737
Image Count:
4
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
In ink verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten
Subject (Name):
Matthews, Edward, 1904-1954 and Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
Subject (Topic):
African American actresses, African American entertainers, African American women jazz singers, African American women singers, Blues (Music), and Harlem Renaissance
"Sole selling agents Mills Music Inc.", Advertisements on p. [2] and [6] and at foot of p. [3-4]., First line of text: You ain't been blue., For voice and piano., Includes ukulele chord diagrams., Portrait of Duke Ellington on title page., and Stamp: Edgar W. Haye
Publisher:
Gotham Music Service,
Subject (Name):
Haye, Edgar W.--Stamp
Subject (Topic):
Blues (Music), Popular music--United States--1931-1940, and Songs with piano
Autographs of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Alain Locke., Contains music., CVV, p. 100 (W)., and Includes The colored girls of Passenack--old and new, by William Carlos Williams: p. 93-96.
Publisher:
Published by Nancy Cunard at Wishart,
Subject (Geographic):
Jackson County (Fla.)
Subject (Topic):
African American arts, African Americans, Blacks, Blues (Music), and Slavery, abolition, and emancipation
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 110 | Folder 2060
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Copy of a New York Times ad taken out by Van Vechten, Tallulah Bankhead, Burgess Meredith, et al., in response to a negative review by critic Brooks Atkinson of Ethel Waters' performance in Mamba's Daughters. and Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechte
Subject (Name):
Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1983 and Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
Subject (Topic):
African American actresses, African American entertainers, African American women jazz singers, African American women singers, Blues (Music), and Harlem Renaissance
Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
Container / Volume:
Box 110 | Folder 2061
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten. / 146 Central Park West / Cannot be reproduced without permission.
Subject (Name):
Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
Subject (Topic):
African American actresses, African American entertainers, African American women jazz singers, African American women singers, B, Bill-posting, Blues (Music), and Harlem Renaissance
