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
- Published/Created:
- New York
1939 May 8 - Physical Description:
- 1 photographic print
24.5 x 17.6 cm.
b&w - Notes:
- 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 - Topics:
- African American actresses
African American entertainers
African American women jazz singers
African American women singers
Blues (Music)
Harlem Renaissance - Topics:
- Atkinson, Brooks, 1894-1983
Waters, Ethel, 1896-1977 - Genre:
- Photographic prints
Photographs - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- 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 learn more, contact the Curator, Yale Collection of American Literature.
- Access Restrictions:
- Public
- Source Creator:
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Source Title:
- Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters
- Source Created:
- 1800-1971
- Source Note:
- Series IV. Photographs. Selected Photographic Prints. Photographic Prints. Places
- Call Number:
- JWJ MSS 1050
- Box:
- 110
- Folder:
- 2060
- Orbis Record:
- 13211157
- Finding Aid:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.vanvechtjwj
- Yale Collection:
- Beinecke Library
- Digital Collection:
- Yale Collection of American Literature
- oid pointer:
- 1109205
- 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.
- Volume/Enumeration:
- Roll number XXII o.
- Extent of digitization:
- Complete folder digitized.
- OID:
- 2028506
- PID:
- digcoll:3438569
