Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1886-1954 Nugent, Bruce, 1906-1987 Still, William Grant Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
193-?
Call Number:
JWJ Vms St54 sa19
Image Count:
152
Abstract:
Ballet for chorus, orchestra, bass soloist, corps de ballet. Includes autograph, signed letters discussing the work from Alain Locke to Carl Van Vechten, 1942 Mar 16 and from Bruce Nugent to Van Vechten, 1942 Feb 12.
Description:
Music by William Grant Still, scenario by Richard Bruce Nugen and Alain locke. Dedicated to Dr. Howard Hanson. Original score as it appeared before the music was revised in 1936. First performed at the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, on May 22, 1931. Autogr
Nugent, Bruce, 1906-1987 Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Published / Created:
1942
Call Number:
JWJ Vms St54 sa19
Image Count:
4
Abstract:
Bruce Nugent thanks Carl Van Vechten for requesting the manuscript copy of the musical work Sahdji, described his recent hard times and difficulty finding a steady job. Includes a postscript note congratulating Van Vechten on his inclusion in the "Honor R
Subject (Name):
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967., Locke, Alain LeRoy, 1886-1954., and Powell, A. Clayton (Adam Clayton), 1865-1953
Subject (Topic):
Appreciation of a person's creative works., Ballet., Opera, Race relations., and Unemployment.
May 20, 1932: Philip Moeller, Capitola Nelson, T. R. (Thomas Robert) Smith, Prentiss Taylor, and Carl Van Vechten (photography by Prentiss Taylor), as well as a view of Sixth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City.
July 19, 1932: Sara Haardt and H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken. July 24, 1932: Edna Kenton and views from the bedroom of Fania Marinoff at the Carl Van Vechten apartment on the seventh floor at 150 West 55th Street, New York City. July 25, 1932: Views of buildings at lower Manhattan, New York City, as well as images of Adelaide Hall during a performance at the Palace Theatre, New York City, and Donald Angus at midnight as Broadway Avenue, Manhattan, New York City.
May 25, 1932: Judith Anderson as well as views in Manhattan, New York City, including Central Park and architectural terracotta details of Alwyn Court at 182 West 58th Street. Roll included images of dogs on Seventh Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, May 25, 1932. Negatives not extant.
May 11, 1934: Serge Koussevitzky. May 14, 1934: Mark Lutz aboard the Royal Mail Ship Berengaria. May 18, 1934: Mark Lutz and sailors aboard the Royal Mail Ship 'Berengaria." May 20, 1934: Mark Lutz at Richmond upon Thames, London, England, including views of Hampton Court and the Mitre Hotel. May 22, 1934: Mark Lutz at Islington and the City of London, London, England, including views Caledonian Market, Includes views of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and Cameo Corner. May 23, 1934: Mark Lutz at Tower of London, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England.
July 3, 1932: Mark Lutz, including portrait at Central Park, New York City, as well as a detail of the United States Ship Maine National Monument in the park.
June 26, 1932: Fania Marinoff and Regina Wallace at Central Park, New York City, as well as views of the park. June 30, 1932: Donald Angus and Eva Gauthier.
August 4, 1932: Donald Angus, Mark Lutz, and Carl Van Vechten posing with porcupines and snakes at the New York Zoological Park, Bronx, New York City, as well as images of Lutz with Carl Van Vechten. Photography by Donald Angus for images of Van Vechten.
August 5, 1932: Mark Lutz at a shipyard with the Steamship Europa. August 6, 1932: Donald Angus, Mark Lutz, and Carl Van Vechten at Club Lido and Lido Beach, Long Island, New York. Photography by Donald Angus for images of Lutz and Van Vechten together.
July 11, 1932: Donald Angus with a kinkajou at the New York Zoological Park, Bronx, New York City, as well as other animals including birds and pelicans and structures at the zoo including a statue at Astor Court designed by Heins & LaFarge and a sculptural fountain known as the Rockefeller Fountain after William Rockefeller, which he purchased from the city of Como, Italy, and donated to the park. July 13, 1932: Clifton Webb.
March 19, 1932: María Luisa Cabrera Block (also known as Malú), Frida Kahlo, and Diego Rivera. Roll included images of Harry Block. Negatives not extant.
June 7, 1932: Views of New York City from the dental office of Thomas Francis, Cloney, Jr., at the thirteenth floor of 140 East 54th Street. June 8, 1932: Clyde Edward Matthews (identified by Van Vechten as Eddie Matthieu) and Ethel Waters as well as views in Manhattan, New York City, including the Majestic and the San Remo apartment buildings from Central Park, the Pierre Hotel, and bas-relief on bronze doors at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church.
May 23, 1932: Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt. Images misfiled or reclassed by Van Vechten as Roll number R are marked on extant photographic prints as Roll number Q. This include images of Mark Lutz as well as views of New Castle and Wilmington, Delaware, including the Old New Castle Courthouse, May 22, 1932, and Georgette Harvey as well as views of Manhattan, New York City, including the campanile and bas-relief on bronze doors at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church and the General Electric Building, also known as 570 Lexington Avenue.
March 20, 1932: James Weldon Johnson March 21, 1932: Al Moore and Edith Ramsay as well as a view from the Carl Van Vechten apartment on the seventh floor at 150 West 55th Street, New York City.
May 22, 1932: Mark Lutz as well as views of New Castle and Wilmington, Delaware, including the Old New Castle Courthouse. May 23, 1932: Lynn Fontanne, Georgette Harvey, and Alfred Lunt as well as views of Manhattan, New York City, including the campanile and bas-relief on bronze doors at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church and the General Electric Building, also known as 570 Lexington Avenue. Images misfiled or reclassed by Van Vechten as Roll number R are marked on extant photographic prints as Roll number Q.
August 4, 1932: Mark Lutz posing with kinkajou and porcupine at the New York Zoological Park, Bronx, New York City, as well as images of Lutz with Carl Van Vechten. Photography by Donald Angus for images of Lutz and Van Vechten together. Roll included images of Mark Lutz, August 3, 1932. Negatives not extant.
March 11, 1932: Carl Van Vechten and Aaron Copland. Roll included images of Regina Wallace as well as images of Mark Lutz at Washington, District of Columbia, on March 12, 1932, which are not extant.
July 26, 1932: Donald Angus and Carl Van Vechten posing with kinkajou and porcupine at the New York Zoological Park, Bronx, New York City. Photography by Donald Angus for images of Van Vechten. July 30, 1932: Taxidermy head of a ram at 53rd Street, New York City. August 1, 1932: Mark Lutz on roof of the the Pierre Hotel and in front of bas-relief on bronze doors at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church. Performances. Cast during a performance of Showboat, musical with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, at the Casino Theatre including Helen Morgan as Julie LaVerne, Paul Robeson as Joe, and Charles Winninger as Cap'n Andy Hawks. August 2, 1932: Mark Lutz at New York City including the Park Casino, Brooklyn, and Broadway Avenue, Manhattan, at midnight as well as out-of-focus images of a performance of "Of Thee I Sing," a a musical by George Gershwin, at the Music Box Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, August 2, 1932.
July 10, 1932: Georg Hoy. July 11, 1932: Donald Angus with a kinkajou at the New York Zoological Park, Bronx, New York City. Views of New York City from the dental office of Thomas Francis, Cloney, Jr., at the thirteenth floor of 140 East 54th Street that include images that form a panorama that includes the Chrysler Building as well as discrete views of a building at 1890-1898 Park Avenue, New York City, that served as a vaudeville theater for Gus Hill's Minstrels.
May 3, 1932: Romney Brent as well as portraits in front of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, including Joella Synara Haweis Levy Bayer, Charles Demuth, Lincoln Kirstein, and Georgia O'Keeffe.
May 23, 1934: Corporal McIver and Lance Corporal Slimon of the Scots Guards at Tower of London, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London, England. May 24, 1934: Harold Cheevers in Hyde Park, Westminster, London, England. Mark Lutz and sites in Cambridge, England. May 25, 1934: Mark Lutz and London, England, including Covent Garden Market, Westminster, and Woburn Square, Camden, which includes views of Christ Church. Also a portrait of Edward Good inc front of his shop. May 26, 1934: W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham at Park Square, Westminster, London, England.
May 8, 1932: Mark Lutz and Annapolis, Maryland, including a statue of Johann De Kalb sculpted by Ephraim Keyser, the Maryland State House, and the United States Naval Academy. May 15, 1932: Fania Marinoff and Catholic Boys Brigade Parade commemorating the bicentennial of George Washington on Fifth Avenue in New York City; these negatives filed as Roll number M and refiled by Carl Van Vechten as Roll number L.
July 26, 1932: Donald Angus and Carl Van Vechten posing with snakes at the New York Zoological Park, Bronx, New York City, as well as images of animals. Photography by Donald Angus for images of Van Vechten.
March 26, 1932: Luther E. Allen, Nella Larsen, Dorothy Randolph Peterson, Jerome Sidney Peterson, and Prentiss Taylor. Roll included images of Carl Van Vechten, March 26, 1932, and Langston Hughes, March 27, 1932. Negatives not extant.
August 2, 1932: Mark Lutz at Broadway Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, at midnight as well as out-of-focus images of a performance of Of Thee I Sing, a musical by George Gershwin, at the Music Box Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, August 2, 1932. August 3, 1932: Mark Lutz
Includes letters from Nora Holt (1963) and Gladys White (1967); two photographs of guests in Peterson's Seville, Spain apartment (1964); and letters from Peterson to Mark Lutz (1963-1964)
May 28, 1932: Donald Angus in Harlem and Central Park, New York City. May 30, 1932: Views in Manhattan, New York City, including views at Washington Square Park and Greenwich Village, ironwork on Bank Street, and the August Pingpank Barbershop at 413 Bleecker Street. Roll included images of Prentiss Taylor, May 30, 1932. Van Vechten identifies this as the first roll of film that he developed himself in a typescript note accompanying contact prints.
August 9-10, 1932: Mark Lutz aboard the Steamship Manhattan. Aerial views on an American Airways flight between Albany, New York, and Montreal, Quebec, including the Richelieu River. Views in Montreal of a clock at Saint-Sulpice Seminary (Vieux Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice), a forest of silver birch trees, and the downtown from Mount Royal. Portraits of Lutz and Carl Van Vechten as well as Canadian Airways pilot Walter "Babe" Woollett. Photography of Van Vechten by Lutz.
Includes letters from Hopwood's mother, Julie Hopwood; letter from CVV to Hopwood (1928); letter from Louise Garfield Roof to CVV regarding Hopwood (1928); third-party correspondence and legal documents regarding Hopwood's estate (1929-1963)