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Horne family research photograph collection

Title: Horne family research photograph collection [graphic].
Author: Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937-2024
Publication: [1887?]-1987.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	box 1	Picture	Use in library	Sc Photo Horne Family Research Collection	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
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p1bc Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937- Horne family research collection, 1777-1989 (CstRLIN)NYPW086000047-A

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Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1880-1989.
Group portraits – 1880-1989.
Snapshots – 1920-1949.
Publicity photographs – 1940-1989.
Photographic postcards.
Film stills – 1940-1949.
Television stills – 1960-1969.
Keepsakes.
Gelatin silver prints – 1880-1989.
Dye coupler pints – 1940-1989.
Dye diffusion transfer prints – 1980-1989.
Clippings – 1930-1949.
Dye coupler transparencies – 1940-1959.
Film negatives – 1940-1989.
Tintypes – 1930-1939.
Cabinet photographs – 1880-1899.
Panoramic photographs – 1940-1949.
Reproductions – 1980-1989.
Hand-coloring.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Some photographs have photographer's or photographic studio's handstamp on verso; some photographs have photographer's or studio's blind stamp on recto; some photographs are signed by photographer on recto; many mounted photographs and cabinet cards have photographer's or photographic studio's name printed on either verso or recto.
Some photographs bear either handwritten or printed captions on either verso or recto; some publicity stills have printed or typewritten captions attached to verso; some items are inscribed.
Many snapshot images were cut from scrapbooks and may include partial images on the verso of full images. Some photographs are split down face of print or have weakened edges. One item is a souvenir matted photograph with folding panels made from photomechanical prints. Some items are reproductions used for publication purposes.
Collection contains work by Carl Van Vechten, Maurice Seymour, Frank G. Smith, Martha Swope, Harris Studio, and others.

Terms of Use (note)

Reproduction restricted at donor's request.

Biography (note)

The Calhoun family began with Sinai Reynolds, an educated Georgia slave who purchased freedom for most of her family in 1859. Her eldest child, Nellie (born ca. 1810), had been sold ten years earlier to the Calhoun family of Coweta County, Georgia. Nellie's son, Moses Calhoun (born 1829), freed after the Civil War, would rise to become a prominent member of Atlanta's black middle-class (ca. 1870s-1880s). His daughters, Cora and Lena (born in 1865 and 1869, respectively), were belles of the black South, with Cora graduating from Atlanta University in 1881, and Lena attending Nashville's Fisk University.
In 1887, Cora Calhoun married Edwin Horn (born 1859), the son of a white river captain and a Native-American mother. Horn, a former teacher, journalist and active member of the Republican Party in Indiana before moving to Atlanta, would become a successful journalist and business entrepreneuer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1896, the Hornes (the "e" was added about this time) moved to New York to escape Southern "Jim Crow" laws and eventually settled in Brooklyn. They had four sons, most notably Frank Horne (1899-1974), an optometrist, writer, a Federal and New York City administrator, and a member of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet"; and Edwin Horne, Jr. (1893-1970), known as Teddy, a sportsman, bon vivant, and, with wife Edna Scottron Horne, one of the parents of singer/actress Lena Horne, born in 1917.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Horne Family Research Collection, 1777-1989.

Publications (note)

The Hornes: an American family / Gail Lumet Buckley. -- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Local note

Sc MG 327

Call Number

Sc Photo Horne Family Research Collection

OCLC

NYPG98-F609

Author

Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937-2024. Compiler

Title

Horne family research photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

[1887?]-1987.

Description

339 items (1 lin. ft., 4 boxes)

67 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-col. ; 36 x 28 cm. and smaller.

31 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. and smaller.

45 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-col. ; 18 x 13 cm. and smaller.

59 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. and smaller.

86 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 13 x 9 cm. and smaller.

17 photographic prints : col. ; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.

6 photographic postcards : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm.

5 cabinet cards : b&w ; 17 x 11 cm.

6 transparencies : col. ; 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.

1 tintype ; 7 x 5 cm.

1 keepsake : halftone photomechanical and silver gelatin, b&w ; 10 x 8 cm. folded, 10 x 23 cm. open.

3 clippings : halftone photomechanical, b&w ; 21 x 7 cm. and smaller.

10 negatives : b&w ; 26 x 21 and smaller.

1 slide : col. ; 4 x 4 cm.

1 notecard : col. ; 13 x 9 cm.

Collection consists of two series: I. Personal photographs, 1880s-1980s; II. Lena Horne career, 1930s-1980s.

Summary

The Horne Family Research Photograph Collection depicts some aspects of the personal lives of the Horn (later spelled Horne) and Calhoun families, as well as the personal life and professional career of entertainer Lena Horne, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s. The collection, which was compiled by Gail Lumet Buckley, Lena Horne's daughter, for her book "The Hornes: An American Family," consists of individual and group portraits, candid shots and snapshots of Lena Horne; members of her immediate and extended family, most notably her parents, Ted and Edna Horne, her uncle Frank Horne, and her grandfather Edwin Horn; some members of the Calhoun family; Lena Horne's second husband, songwriter-arranger Lennie Hayton; family friends at various gatherings and outings; and colleagues and acquaintances from the entertainment and civil rights fields. The collection also consists of publicity photographs from Lena Horne's films, theatrical productions and television programs. Images of Lena Horne's first husband, Louis Jones, and children, Gail and Edwin Jones, are limited; there are no images of Frank Horne serving in President Franklin Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet," or in any of his Federal or New York City administrative positions.

The earliest part of the personal photographs series (ca. 1880s to 1900) includes studio portraits of Moses, Cora and Lena Calhoun, Lena Horne's great-grandfather, grandmother and great-aunt, respectively (ca. 1883); Edwin and Cora Horn's wedding portrait (1887) and twenty-fifth anniversary portrait (1912); a studio portrait of Edwin Horn and business partner H.M. Wilson, who co-owned, with A.F. Perry M.D., Perry & Co., "The Peoples Drug Store," in Chattanooga, Tennessee (ca. 1889); a studio portrait of Louise Ashton Scottron, Lena Horne's maternal grandmother (ca. late 1800s); a view of young Teddy Horne on his way to school at P.S. 54 in Manhattan (1898); a studio portrait of brothers Teddy and Errol Horne, as young boys, posing with their bicycles (ca. 1900); and a group portrait of Lena Calhoun Smith, her husband, Frank Smith, and children Edwina and Frank, Jr. (ca. 1900). Some of these images are photographic reproductions of the original images used for Ms. Buckley's book.

Personal photographs from the early 1900s to the 1930s include studio portraits of newborn Lena Horne and mother Edna (1917) and baby Lena as she appeared in the October 1919 issue of the NAACP publication "Branch Bulletin"; a snapshot of Teddy Horne and his co-workers at the New York State Department of Labor (1917); snapshots of Teddy Horne in Seattle, after his separation from Edna, which include his second wife, Irene (1921); snapshots of the Horne house and Teddy posing with his father, Edwin, in Fort Valley, Georgia (1927-1928); snapshots of teenaged Lena Horne in Brooklyn, posing in a fur coat and in her grandmother's dress (1929); a view of Frank Horne and his wife, Frankye, in Los Angeles (1932); a composite portrait of Edna Horne and her second husband, Miguel Rodriguez (ca. 1935); a snapshot of Lena Horne at Jones Beach, Long Island, after she began performing at the Cotton Club (1934); and a view of Louis Jones (Lena Horne's first husband) and Teddy Horne seeing a pregnant Lena off to Hollywood, from the Pittsburgh airport, to make the movie "The Duke Is Tops" (1938). Included are several scrapbook snapshots depicting family and friends at outdoor gatherings, on beach and country trips, or in unspecified group shots at various locations in California, the Midwest and the American South (1920s-1930s).

Personal photographs from the 1940s and afterwards include a candid portrait of Lena Horne's children, Gail and Teddy Jones, in her dressing room at the Copacabana, New York (1947); Frank Horne being honored by New York City Mayor John Lindsay (1968); and Lena Horne, at Howard University, where she received an honorary degree (1979), and with various family members around the time of her performance in "Lena Horne: The Lady and her Music" (ca. 1981). Images of Lennie Hayton, Lena Horne's second husband, include snapshots of him as a young man in New York City (ca. 1920s); in some publicity stills showing him conducting various orchestras (ca. 1930s-1940s); in a group shot of the Freed Unit at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which includes producer Arthur Freed and composer Jerome Kern (ca. 1945); with music arranger Luther Henderson at a jazz club in England (1947); and in some group shots and snapshots with Horne (ca. 1940s-1960s).

The Lena Horne career series includes publicity stills of Horne when she was singing as Helena Horne (ca. 1936, 1938); portraits of Horne at Joe Louis' New Jersey training camp (1941); a series of group portraits of Horne with director Vincente Minnelli and actors Eddie "Rochester" Anderson and Rex Ingram during rehearsals for the movie "Cabin In The Sky" (1942); a motion picture still of the bubble-bath scene which was cut from "Cabin In The Sky" (1942); a group portrait of Horne with actress Hattie McDaniel, dancer Fayard Nicholas, "Rochester" Anderson, comedian Mantan Moreland, and others at an unidentified gathering; in a motion picture publicity shot with Fats Waller for the movie "Stormy Weather" (1943); in a group portrait with a number of celebrities attending the Inaugural Ball for President Harry S. Truman (1949); greeting civil rights leader Walter White (ca. 1950); in a scene from the theatrical production "Jamaica" (1957); with Reverend Ike and singer Marvin Gaye at the Media Women's Lunch in Los Angeles (ca. 1970s); and duetting with opera singer Leontyne Price at a benefit for the Dance Theatre of Harlem (1972).

Also included are television stills from the 1969 special "Monsanto Night Presents Lena Horne," also featuring actor David Janssen, composer Michel Legrand, and singers O.C. Smith and Jack Jones; and performance and publicity stills from her 1981 Broadway production "Lena Horne: The Lady And Her Music," which includes a view of her with producer Quincy Jones after she had won two Grammy Awards for the recording of her performance (1982). Among the other individuals pictured with Lena Horne include boxer Muhammad Ali, former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, President John F. Kennedy, and singer-actor Harry Belafonte.

Terms Of Use

Reproduction restricted at donor's request.

Biography

The Calhoun family began with Sinai Reynolds, an educated Georgia slave who purchased freedom for most of her family in 1859. Her eldest child, Nellie (born ca. 1810), had been sold ten years earlier to the Calhoun family of Coweta County, Georgia. Nellie's son, Moses Calhoun (born 1829), freed after the Civil War, would rise to become a prominent member of Atlanta's black middle-class (ca. 1870s-1880s). His daughters, Cora and Lena (born in 1865 and 1869, respectively), were belles of the black South, with Cora graduating from Atlanta University in 1881, and Lena attending Nashville's Fisk University.

In 1887, Cora Calhoun married Edwin Horn (born 1859), the son of a white river captain and a Native-American mother. Horn, a former teacher, journalist and active member of the Republican Party in Indiana before moving to Atlanta, would become a successful journalist and business entrepreneuer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1896, the Hornes (the "e" was added about this time) moved to New York to escape Southern "Jim Crow" laws and eventually settled in Brooklyn. They had four sons, most notably Frank Horne (1899-1974), an optometrist, writer, a Federal and New York City administrator, and a member of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet"; and Edwin Horne, Jr. (1893-1970), known as Teddy, a sportsman, bon vivant, and, with wife Edna Scottron Horne, one of the parents of singer/actress Lena Horne, born in 1917.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Horne Family Research Collection, 1777-1989.

Publications

The Hornes: an American family / Gail Lumet Buckley. -- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Local Note

Sc MG 327

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Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Photographer

Seymour, Maurice. Photographer

Smith, Frank G. Photographer

Swope, Martha. Photographer

Schiedt, Duncan. Photographer

Ivry, Joy. Photographer

Harris Studio (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

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p1bc Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937- Horne family research collection, 1777-1989 (CstRLIN)NYPW086000047-A

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Horne Family Research Collection

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