Roll Number IX

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Description

Title: Roll Number IX
Creator: From the Collection: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created: 1932 March 5
Description: March 5, 1932: Prentiss Taylor at Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, and a cityscape from the Carl Van Vechten apartment on the seventh floor at 150 West 55th Street, New York City. Sites in Harlem, New York City, including men in front of Connie's Inn at 2221 Seventh Avenue at 131st Street, the funeral home of Walton Fredericks at 26 West 135th Street, the home of an "ofay" (derogatory for a white person) at Fifth Avenue and West 130th Street, a sign for "hot pig feet," and a horse drawn coal wagon, African American boys sitting on a stoop on Fifth Avenue, and rabbits and pots at a market.
Provenance: Gift of Carl Van Vechten and Fania Marinoff, 1941-1971. Additional material acquired through gifts and purchases is noted in folder-level acquisition notes.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

YCAL MSS 1050

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Container / Volume

Box 566, folder 10471

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. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.