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- Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Published / Created:
- 1932 February 6
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
- Container / Volume:
- Box 103 | Folder 1866
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Description:
- Stamped verso: "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten.
- Subject (Name):
- Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949. and Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991
- Subject (Topic):
- African American actors, African American dancers, Artists, Illustrators, and Tap dancers
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robinson, Bill, and Prentiss Taylor at Harlem, New York City
- Published / Created:
- 1925–1938
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
- Container / Volume:
- Box 29 | 514-520
- Image Count:
- 68
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Folder 514 completely digitized.
- Description:
- See also: Photoduplicated letters from Johnson to CVV in Box 50
- Subject (Topic):
- African American artists--20th Century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Johnson, James Weldon
- Published / Created:
- 1950 and 1925
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 1050
- Collection Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
- Container / Volume:
- Box 6 | Folder 176
- Image Count:
- 5
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Subject (Topic):
- African American artists--20th Century
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Dixie Jubilee Singers
145.
- Published / Created:
- 1936, n.d.
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 40
- Collection Title:
- Federal Writers' Project Negro Group papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 13
- Image Count:
- 16
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of African Americans cover religion in the Colonial era, the anti-slavery movement, and the underground railroad. Essays documenting African American cultural forms cover dance, literature, and theater, and feature several pieces on music, including songs of protest, spirituals, and folk music. Many essays in the collection also document contributions of individual African Americans, including James Weldon Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Paul Robeson, and William Christopher Handy. Contributing authors include Wesley Curtwright, Ralph Ellison, Lawrence Gellert, Abram Hill, Claude McKay, Henry Lee Moon, Ted Poston, and others.
- Description:
- Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008. and The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
- Subject (Name):
- United States.--Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
- Subject (Topic):
- African American artists
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drafts
146.
- Creator:
- Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 40
- Collection Title:
- Federal Writers' Project Negro Group papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 7
- Image Count:
- 60
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of African Americans cover religion in the Colonial era, the anti-slavery movement, and the underground railroad. Essays documenting African American cultural forms cover dance, literature, and theater, and feature several pieces on music, including songs of protest, spirituals, and folk music. Many essays in the collection also document contributions of individual African Americans, including James Weldon Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Paul Robeson, and William Christopher Handy. Contributing authors include Wesley Curtwright, Ralph Ellison, Lawrence Gellert, Abram Hill, Claude McKay, Henry Lee Moon, Ted Poston, and others.
- Description:
- Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008. and The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
- Subject (Name):
- United States.--Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
- Subject (Topic):
- African American artists
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drafts
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 40
- Collection Title:
- Federal Writers' Project Negro Group papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 25
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of African Americans cover religion in the Colonial era, the anti-slavery movement, and the underground railroad. Essays documenting African American cultural forms cover dance, literature, and theater, and feature several pieces on music, including songs of protest, spirituals, and folk music. Many essays in the collection also document contributions of individual African Americans, including James Weldon Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Paul Robeson, and William Christopher Handy. Contributing authors include Wesley Curtwright, Ralph Ellison, Lawrence Gellert, Abram Hill, Claude McKay, Henry Lee Moon, Ted Poston, and others.
- Description:
- Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008. and The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
- Subject (Name):
- United States.--Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
- Subject (Topic):
- African American artists
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Drafts [folder 5 of 5]
- Creator:
- McKay, Claude, 1890-1948
- Published / Created:
- n.d.
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 40
- Collection Title:
- Federal Writers' Project Negro Group papers
- Container / Volume:
- Box 1 | Folder 12
- Image Count:
- 6
- Resource Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
- Abstract:
- Collection consists of drafts and transcriptions of essays by African American authors on the history and culture of African Americans in the United States and on African American contributions to the arts. Essays documenting historical experiences of African Americans cover religion in the Colonial era, the anti-slavery movement, and the underground railroad. Essays documenting African American cultural forms cover dance, literature, and theater, and feature several pieces on music, including songs of protest, spirituals, and folk music. Many essays in the collection also document contributions of individual African Americans, including James Weldon Johnson, Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Paul Robeson, and William Christopher Handy. Contributing authors include Wesley Curtwright, Ralph Ellison, Lawrence Gellert, Abram Hill, Claude McKay, Henry Lee Moon, Ted Poston, and others.
- Description:
- Purchased from William Reese Co. on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2008. and The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was established in 1935 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
- Subject (Name):
- United States.--Works Progress Administration (N.Y.)
- Subject (Topic):
- African American artists
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The Negro Theater Movement in New York
- Creator:
- Locke, Alain, 1885-1954
- Published / Created:
- 1918-1918.
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 128
- Collection Title:
- 1907-1980 (bulk 1942-1953)
- Container / Volume:
- Box 3
- Image Count:
- 7
- Resource Type:
- Paintings & Drawings
- Abstract:
- Collection also includes two photographs of Alain LeRoy Locke (1946 and undated); related notes, clippings, and ephemera (1907-1971); a typescript carbon of "The Wise" by Countee Cullen, inscribed to Locke by Cullen; and a checklist for an exhibition of paintings by Henry Ossawa Tanner., Four pastel and charcoal drawings given to Russell by Locke in 1952 include three unsigned portraits attributed to Lenwood Harvey Morris, circa 1915-1918, of Jessie Redmon Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Georgia Douglas Johnson, as well as a portrait of a woman signed and dated by an unidentified artist, "S. H.," 1916., and The collection consists chiefly of letters (most autograph letters, signed) between Alain LeRoy Locke and Maurice V. Russell, 1942-1953. The correspondence discusses Russell's education, career plans, and psychoanalysis, and indicates that Locke supported Russell financially during the years he was in school. The two also exchange news of mutual acquaintances, including "Glenn" and Edward Atkinson. Later correspondence,1954-1980, concerns the death of Alain LeRoy Locke, and commemoration of his life.
- Description:
- an African American artist. He trained at
- Subject (Name):
- Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946, Cullen, Countee,--1903-1946, Fauset, Jessie Redmon--Portraits., Hurston, Zora Neale--Portraits., Johnson, Georgia Douglas,--1886-1966--Portraits., Locke, Alain,--1885-1954, Morris, Lenw, and Morris, Lenwood H. (Lenwood Harvey), 1889-1920.
- Subject (Topic):
- African American educators, African American philosophers, African American social workers, Educators--New York (State)--New York., Philosophers--New York (State)--New York., and Social workers--New York (State)--New York.
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Alain LeRoy Locke and Maurice V. Russell correspondence.