Research Catalog

Title

Ella Fitzgerald portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

<1934?-1979?>

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
• Ellison, Sulaiman, 1951-
• Bernard, Sidney G.
• Bernard, Bruno.
• Gale Agency.
• Pablo.
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Description

• <10> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.
• <26> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• <1> photomechanical print : b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. Collection includes numerous promotional stills of Fitzgerald as well as individual portraits and a caricature, ranging from the 1930s to the 1980s. Many views of Fitzgerald singing, with Duke Ellington on piano on the "Ed Sullivan Show," at the Apollo, with the Chick Webb Orchestra at the Savoy Ballroom, in the Zanzibar show, at Lewisohn Stadium and on other occasions. Fitzgerald is pictured with Dean Martin and Gordon MacRae on the "Dean Martin Show," Ed Sullivan on the "Ed Sullivan Show," Jackie Paris, and Shelley Winters in a movie still. There is also a photograph of a poster advertising Fitzgerald and the Chick Webb Orchestra. Full, half and quarter length images are available.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• Concerts
• Silver gelatin photoprints > 1930-1979
• Motion picture stills
• MacRae, Gordon
• Jordan, Louis, 1908-1975
• Paris, Jackie
• Caricatures
• Singing
• Posters
• African American singers
• Martin, Dean, 1917-1995
• Women jazz musicians
• Portrait photographs > 1930-1979
• Sullivan, Ed, 1901-1974
• Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
• Publicity photographs > 1930-1979
• Orchestras
• Postcards
• Fitzgerald, Ella > Caricatures and cartoons
• Savoy Ballroom (New York, N.Y.)
• Women singers > United States
• Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street)
• Chick Webb and his orchestra
• Group portraits > 1930-1979
• Winters, Shelley

Genre/Form

• Caricatures.
• Motion picture stills.
• Postcards.
• Portrait photographs – 1930-1979.
• Group portraits – 1930-1979.
• Publicity photographs – 1930-1979.
• Silver gelatin photoprints – 1930-1979.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs have captions; some are duplicates; some photographs have written descriptive information; some have airbrush marks; one photograph is inscribed; some photographs are stained; some photographs are cropped.
• Photographers include Carl Van Vechten, Sulaiman Ellison and others.

Terms of Use (note)

• Some photographs are restricted; permission of the photographer required for duplication.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Fitzgerald, Ella

OCLC

NYPG085000704-F

Title

Ella Fitzgerald portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1934?-1979?>

Terms Of Use

Some photographs are restricted; permission of the photographer required for duplication.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.

Ellison, Sulaiman, 1951- Photographer

Bernard, Sidney G. Photographer

Bernard, Bruno.

Gale Agency.

Pablo.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Fitzgerald, Ella