African American singers
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Carol Brice papers
Collection
Identifier: 056
Scope and Contents
The Carol Brice papers document the career and personal life of Carol Lovette Brice, an acclaimed African American concert singer, recording artist, and professor in the United States and abroad. The papers encompass 11.8 linear feetof correspondence (2.3 linear feet), programs and professional materials (2.3 linear feet), news clippings and publications (1.0 linear foot), personal and financial materials, miscellaneous collected items (0.8 linear feet), as well as photographs, scrapbooks,...
Dates:
Created: 1905-1986; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1972
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Carol Brice papers
Anne Wiggins Brown papers
Collection — 14 items
Identifier: 057
Scope and Contents
The papers of Anne Wiggins Brown document her career as a singer, producer and stage director which spanned five decades. Brown was the original "Bess" in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. The papers include personal and professional correspondence, photographs, financial records, musical scores, playbills, posters and other collected publications. A large majority of the collection is newspaper clippings. The correspondence dates from 1935 until 1998. The earliest correspondence...
Dates:
Created: 1935-2002; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/1991
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Anne Wiggins Brown papers
Larney Goodkind papers
Collection
Identifier: 726
Content Description
The papers primarily document Larney Goodkind’s client, William Warfield, and highlight Goodkind’s efforts to promote Warfield’s career as an international classical operatic performer. Some materials pertain to other clients as well, including African American soprano Leontyne Price. Formats in the collection include correspondence, concert programs and stage bills, concert reviews, photographs, contracts, biographical sketches, scrapbooks, certificates and awards, press releases, and sound...
Dates:
1948-1997, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Larney Goodkind papers
J. Rosamond Johnson collection
Collection
Identifier: 201
Content Description
This collection includes two photographs, a sheet of blank stationary, two press clippings, and a discography on the career of composer and singer J. Rosamond Johnson.
Dates:
Other: 1938
Rex Madsen and Jimmie Daniels photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: 240
Scope and Contents
The Rex Madsen and Jimmie Daniels photograph collection documents the life of Jimmie Daniels and his career as a a nightclub host and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance and into the 1950s and 1960s. The collection measures 1.75 linear feet and is comprised mainly of photographs from circa 1870s-1970s. Many of the photographs are from Daniels' years at the Bon Soir nightclub in Greenwich Village during the 1950s. Additional items include musical scores, invitations, postcards, and...
Dates:
Created: 1870s-1980; Other: Majority of material found in 1930s-1960s; Other: Date acquired: 02/01/1987
Isabel Washington Powell papers
Collection
Identifier: 306
Scope and Contents
The papers of singer, actress, and teacher Isabel Washington Powell document her career in show business, her marriage to Adam Clayton Powell Jr, and her later teaching career in New York City public schools. The collection is .2 linear feet and dates from 1929-1981. It includes correspondence, news clippings, a scrapbook, photographs, and other miscellaneous items pertaining to Powell's life and work. The correspondence in the collection dates from 1966-1981; therefore, none of...
Dates:
Created: 1929-1981; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1983
William Warfield papers
Collection — 32 boxes
Identifier: 379
Scope and Contents
The William Warfield papers document Warfield's career as a bass baritone singer, actor, narrator, and professor. The collection consists of correspondence, financial documents, schedules, collected items, newspaper articles, and photographs spanning the years 1948 to 1990. The papers have been arranged into five series, which are arranged as follows: biographical information and correspondence, financial records, itineraries and schedules, collected items, and oversize items. The bulk of...
Dates:
Created: 1948-1990; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1980; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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William Warfield papers
Helen R. White collection
Collection
Identifier: 2245
Content Description
The Helen R. White collection is comprised of theater playbills, clippings, concert programs and related ephemera pertaining to performing arts in Chicago. Included are programs for a production of Black Nativity by Langston Hughes; a concert by Leontyne Price; a concert by Pearl Bailey; a production of Martin Duberman's In White America; and a performance by The Singing Whites, comprised of soprano Helen R. White and Lewis V. White. Also included is a program for the 1968 debutante ball of...
Dates:
Other: 1944-1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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Helen R. White collection