Research Catalog

Title

Lena Horne portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

<1937?-1989?>

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Benners, Aubrey S.
• Layne, Cecil.
• Gilbert, James.
• Scott, Betty Marshall.
• Reynolds, Emil.
• Joseph, E. F.
• Truesdale, June.
• Steiner, Christian.
• Evans, George B.
• DuCree, Richard.
• M. Associates (New York, N.Y.)
• Wide World Photos.
• Friedman-Abeles (New York, N.Y.)
• Metropolitan Photo Service (New York, N.Y.)
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Description

• <53> items (5 folders); 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
• <34> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• <15> photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• <1> photographic print : col. ;
• <3> photomechanical prints : b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of singer and actress Lena Horne. Includes many promotional stills of Horne and some motion picture stills from "Stormy Weather" and "Cabin in the Sky" with Cab Calloway, Fats Waller, and Eddie Anderson. Other images include dancing with Bill Robinson; with Duke Ellington and Hall Johnson; with her husband Lennie Hayton, in one shot as they leave for vacation; singing, accompanied by Phil Moore; with Gary Moore, Roy Wikins; at the SS George Washington Carver launching; with Dr. John A. Morsell, Michel Legrande, Cornell DuPree, Paul Griffith, Ron Carter, Grady Tate, Richard Tee, Ralph MacDonald, Joe Beck, her uncle, Frank Horne and her children, Gail Buckley and Edwin Fletcher Jones. Horne is also shown attending various other functions with unidentified individuals. Full, half and quarter length views are available.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Griffin, Paul
• African American motion picture actors and actresses
• Jones, Edwin Fletcher
• Tee, Richard
• Horne, Frank Smith, 1899-1974
• Photoprints > Color
• Motion picture stills
• Arrivals & departures
• Sound recordings > United States > Production and direction
• Johnson, Hall, 1888-1970
• Ships > United States > Launching
• Hayton, Lennie, 1908-1971
• Moore, Phil
• Beck, Joe
• Morsell, John A
• Waller, Fats, 1904-1943
• Group portraits > 1930-1989
• African American singers
• Legrand, Michel, 1932-2019
• Wilkins, Roy, 1901-
• Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994
• Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
• Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977
• Horne, Lena
• Robinson, Bill, 1878-1949
• Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937-
• Portrait photographs > 1930-1989
• Silver gelatin photoprints > 1930-1989
• Women singers > United States
• Photomechanical prints
• Publicity photographs > 1930-1989
• Carter, Ron, 1937-
• Moore, Gary
• MacDonald, Ralph
• Portraits
• Eating & drinking
• Dupree, Cornell
• Tate, Grady

Genre/Form

• Motion picture stills.
• Portrait photographs – 1930-1989.
• Group portraits – 1930-1989.
• Portraits.
• Publicity photographs – 1930-1989.
• Photomechanical prints.
• Photoprints – Color.
• Silver gelatin photoprints – 1930-1989.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs have captions; some are cropped; some photographs are duplicates; some are inscribed; some photographs have airbrush or cropping markings; some photographs have written descriptive information.
• Collection contains work by Aubrey S. Benners, Cecil Layne, and M. Associates, among others.

Terms of Use (note)

• Some photographs are restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Horne, Lena

OCLC

NYPG085000402-F

Title

Lena Horne portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1937?-1989?>

Terms Of Use

Some photographs are restricted; permission of the copyright holder is required for duplication.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Benners, Aubrey S. Photographer

Layne, Cecil. Photographer

Gilbert, James. Photographer

Scott, Betty Marshall. Photographer

Reynolds, Emil. Photographer

Joseph, E. F. Photographer

Truesdale, June. Photographer

Steiner, Christian. Photographer

Evans, George B. Photographer

DuCree, Richard. Photographer

M. Associates (New York, N.Y.)

Wide World Photos.

Friedman-Abeles (New York, N.Y.)

Metropolitan Photo Service (New York, N.Y.)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Horne, Lena