Research Catalog

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Description

1. 2 folders.

Summary

1. The Caterina Jarboro papers consist of letters, programs, news clippings, and other items relating to Jarboro's career.

Subject

1. African American singers
2. Opera > United States
3. Jarboro, Caterina
4. African Americans in the performing arts
5. African American women entertainers
6. Women singers

Call number

1. Sc MG 208

Note

1. Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.

Source (note)

1. Jarboro, Caterina

Biography (note)

1. Caterina Jarboro (1898-1986) was the first Black female opera singer to perform with a major company. Jarboro was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, to a Black father and Native American mother. She made her American opera debut in Verdi's Aida in 1933 at the New York Hippodrome. After performing across Europe, she returned to the US in 1941, giving performances at Town Hall (1942) and Carnegie Hall (1944). She retired in 1955 and died in New York in 1986.

Processing action (note)

1. Surveyed
2. Accessioned
3. Cataloging updated

Author

1. Jarboro, Caterina.

Title

1. Caterina Jarboro papers, 1933-1977

Biography

1. Caterina Jarboro (1898-1986) was the first Black female opera singer to perform with a major company. Jarboro was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, to a Black father and Native American mother. She made her American opera debut in Verdi's Aida in 1933 at the New York Hippodrome. After performing across Europe, she returned to the US in 1941, giving performances at Town Hall (1942) and Carnegie Hall (1944). She retired in 1955 and died in New York in 1986.

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1. Finding Aid

Occupation

1. Women singers.
2. African American singers.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 208