Harlem. Colonial Park

Description

Title: Harlem. Colonial Park
Creator: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created: 1940 September 4
Publication Place: New York
Abstract: Slide numbers 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48. Image set number CCXIX. Views of the Colonial Park Pool and swimmers. In 1978, the park at West 146th Street and Broadhurst Avenue was renamed Jackie Robinson Park. The swimming pool by Robert Moses was completed in 1936.
Description: Stamped on verso: Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
Extent: 2 x 2 in.
5 slides
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. Places. New York City. Manhattan
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.