CVV-Lutz_B001_F025

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Title: Jerome Bowers Peterson Memorial Collection of Photographs of Celebrated Negroes

Creator: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964

Creator: Wadleigh High School (New York, N.Y.)

Creator: Boatwright Memorial Library (University of Richmond)

Date: 1949

Description: 1 online resource (23 pages)

Type of Resource: text

Location: MS-1, Carl Van Vechten - Mark Lutz Collection, Book Arts, Archives, and Rare Books, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia

Subject: African Americans

Subject: Biography

Subject: Portraits

Subject: Photography

Subject: Exhibitions

Note: A catalog of photographs exhibited as part of the James Bowers Peterson Memorial Collection of Photographs of Celebrated Negroes. Contains biographical information on the subjects of Van Vechten's photographs.

Contents: Marian Anderson -- Pearl Bailey -- Richmond Barthé -- Reginald Beane -- Romare Bearden -- Arna Bontemps -- William Stanley Braithwaite -- Carol Brice -- Anne Brown -- Henry Thacker Burleigh -- Dan Burley -- Cab Calloway -- Dick Campbell -- Horace Cayton -- Leo Coleman -- Countee Cullen -- Asadata Dafora -- Jimmie Daniels -- William Levi Dawson -- Geraldyn Dismond -- Dean Dixon -- Owen Dodson -- Aaron Douglss -- William Edward Burghardt DuBois -- Rudolph Dunbar -- Todd Duncan -- Katherine Dunham -- Ruby Elzy -- Ella Fitzgerald -- Taylor Gordon -- Shirley Graham -- William Christopher Handy -- Georgette Harvey -- Eugene Haynes -- Chippie Hill -- Ruby Hill -- Chester Himes -- Altonell Himes -- Nora Douglass Holt -- Lena Horne -- Richard Huey -- Langston Hughes -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Earle Hyman -- Charles S. Johnson -- "Dots" Johnson -- J. Rosamond Johnson -- James Weldon Johnson -- Hall Johnson -- William H. Johnson -- Ulysses Key -- Jacob Lawrence -- Canada Lee -- Everett Lee -- Rosetta LeNoire -- Alain Locke -- Avon Long -- Sergeant Joe Louis -- Claude Marchant -- Edward Matthews -- Dorothy Maynor -- Rose McClendon -- Claude McKay -- Etta Moten -- Willard Motley -- Mbonu Ojike -- Roi Ottley -- Jerome Bowers Peterson -- Sidney Jerome Peterson -- Ann Petry -- Pearl Primus -- Muriel Rahn -- Paul Robeson -- Bill Robinson -- Belle Rosette -- Archie Savage -- Augusta Savage -- Charles Sebree -- George S. Schuyler -- Phillipa Duke Schuyler -- Bessie Smith -- Muriel Smith -- William Gardner Smith -- Maxine Sullivan -- Edna Thomas -- Carl Van Vechten -- William Robert Valentine -- Margaret Abigail Walker -- Fredi Washington -- Ethel Waters -- Elisabeth Welch -- Dorothy West -- Josh White -- Portia White -- Walter White -- Camilla Williams -- Paul R. Williams -- F. J. Work.

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