New York City. Manhattan. Broadway Avenue. Broadside outside the Empire Theatre for Mamba's Daughters, play by Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward

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2028506

Description

Title: New York City. Manhattan. Broadway Avenue. Broadside outside the Empire Theatre for Mamba's Daughters, play by Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward
Creator: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Contributor: Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1983
Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
Published / Created: 1939 May 8
Publication Place: New York
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.
Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechte
Extent: 1 photographic print
24.5 x 17.6 cm.
b&w
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.

Collection Information

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. Selected Photographic Prints. Photographic Prints. Places
Container / Volume: Box 110 | Folder 2060

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: still image
Genre: Photographic prints
Photographs
Resource Type: Prints & Photographs
Subject (Name): Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1983
Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977
Subject (Topic): African American actresses
African American entertainers
African American women jazz singers
African American women singers
Blues (Music)
Harlem Renaissance

Access And Usage Rights

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.

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 13211157
Object ID (OID): 2028506