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Eubie Blake portrait collection

Title: Eubie Blake portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1925?-1980?>

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	folder 2	Picture	Use in library	Sc Photo Blake, Eubie	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	folder 1	Picture	Use in library	Sc Photo Blake, Eubie	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

Genre/Form

Group portraits.
Portrait photographs.
Publicity photographs.
Autographs.
Silver gelatin photoprints.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include John M. Taylor, Sulaiman Ellison, Reggie Jackson and others.
Some photographs are duplicates; some have been autographed; some have descriptive information on verso.

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Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local note

Negatives exist for some of images.

Call Number

Sc Photo Blake, Eubie

OCLC

NYPG085000269-F

Title

Eubie Blake portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1925?-1980?>

Description

<15> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.

<7> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.

Summary

Views of pianist and composer Eubie Blake dated between 1925 and 1980. Collection includes half and three-quarter length studio portraits (publicity stills), many of which were autographed in the 1920's. Collection also includes Blake in group portraits at a variety of events with his wife, Billy Taylor, Ruth Ellington, Fat's Waller's Son Maurice, Josephine Premice and other unidentified people. Other portraits include Blake age 12 with Howard "Hops" Johns, with an unidentified man and Blake in his later years performing on stage.

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