Betty Carter, Jazz Vocalist: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Black and white photograph of Betty Carter pictured smiling, looking at the camera. She is pictured in the lower two-thirds of the image wearing a large wool coat, dark shirt, and geometric head wrap. She stands in front of a gauzy fabric background. A narrow bit of light is in the background in the right third of the image. The image has a narrow black border and is centered on a white background. Below the image is handwritten text with the title, date, and artist signature [Betty Carter - JAZZ Vocalist - '76'/A. Barboza]. On the back in the upper left quadrant is text in pencil written vertically [Betty/Carter/March 76].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1976
• Photograph by: Anthony Barboza, American, born 1944
• Subject of: Betty Carter, American, 1929 - 1998
• Type: gelatin silver prints
• Type: portraits
• Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 14 × 11 1/16 in. (35.6 × 28.1 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Image): 8 3/8 × 8 3/8 in. (21.3 × 21.3 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Topic: Photography
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2014.157.8
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Anthony Barboza
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Anthony Barboza Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.