Photographic print of Cab Calloway and his band in a sleeper car: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photographic print of Cab Calloway and his band in a sleeper car: Date: 1933. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white photograph of Cab Calloway and his band in sleeper car. Calloway and the band are pictured wearing pajamas, while holding their instruments. Calloway is visible in bottom right corner of photograph. [PH6-13] is inscribed in the bottom left corner of the photograph. The back of the photograph is blank.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1933
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 7 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (18.6 × 24 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 8 × 10 3/16 in. (20.3 × 25.9 cm)
- Place depicted: Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Advertising
- Topic: Band (Music)
- Topic: Composers (Musicians)
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Dance
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Musicians
- Object number: 2013.237.14
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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