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• Collection: Van Vechten Collection

• Title: [Bessie Smith, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front, with left hand raised]
• Creator(s): Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, photographer
• Date Created/Published: 1936 Feb. 3.
• Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; sheet 35.4 x 27.9 cm.
• Summary: Photograph shows Bessie Smith a female, African American blues singer.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-van-5a52645 (digital file from original photograph) LC-USZ62-100863 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Carl Van Vechten Photographs (Lots 12735 and 12736)"(http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/079_vanv.html)
  
• Call Number: LOT 12735, no. 1046 [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • Van Vechten number: V J 27.
  • Also available on microfilm.
  • Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966.
  • Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a LOT which in turn forms part of the Carl Van Vechten photograph collection (Library of Congress).
  • Exhibited: "American Treasures of the Library of Congress", 1997; "Treasures from the World's Great Libraries" at the National Library of Australia, 2001-2002.
  • Exhibited: "Jazz Singers" in the Performing Arts Reading Room, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Feb. - July 2016 ; 2nd venue: Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, California, Aug. 2016 - February 2017.
• Subjects:
  • Smith, Bessie,--1894-1937.
  • African Americans--1930-1940.
  • Women--1930-1940.
  • Blues singers--1930-1940.
• Format:
  • Gelatin silver prints--1930-1940.
  • Portrait photographs--1930-1940.
• Collections:
  • Van Vechten Collection
• Part of: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Portrait photographs of celebrities
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• Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see "Carl Van Vechten Photographs (Lots 12735 and 12736)" http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/079_vanv.html
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-van-5a52645 (digital file from original photograph) LC-USZ62-100863 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Call Number: LOT 12735, no. 1046 [P&P]
• Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; sheet 35.4 x 27.9 cm.

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• Call Number: LOT 12735, no. 1046 [P&P]
• Medium: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; sheet 35.4 x 27.9 cm.

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