Gladys Bentley: America's Greatest Sepia Player -- The Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs: Museum Object and Cultural History
Gladys Bentley: America's Greatest Sepia Player -- The Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs: Date: 1946 - 1949. Photograph by: Unidentified. Printed by: Unidentified.
The object in the museum catalogue
Black and white photographic postcard of the singer and musician Gladys Bentley dressed in a men's white tuxedo and white top hat, holding a cane at her side tucked under her arm. The phrase: "America's Greatest Sepia Player" is printed down the left side of the postcard and the phrase: "The Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs" is printed down the right side of the postcard.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1946 - 1949
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Printed by: Unidentified
- Distributed by: Harry Walker Agency, American, founded 1946
- Subject of: Gladys Bentley, American, 1907 - 1960
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Type: photographic postcards
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, with ink on cardboard
- Dimensions: H x W x D: 5 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (13.3 x 8.6 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Blues (Music)
- Topic: Entertainers
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2011.57.25.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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