Photographic print of Cab Calloway: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photographic print of Cab Calloway: Date: July 1941. Photograph by: Charles "Teenie" Harris, American, 1908 - 1998. Subject of: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white photograph of Cab Calloway conducting a band including Milton Hinton and Leon "Chu" Berry, at the Hill City Auditorium in the Savoy Ballroom in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Calloway stands to the right of the photograph in front of the band and a music stand. He faces the band, who are in the left of the photograph. Most of the band members are seated, but Berry stands with his mouth to his saxophone, facing Calloway. An unidentified man is partially visible in the left foreground of the photograph. In the right background, behind Calloway, people are seated. The back of the photograph has six stickers with barcode, numbers, reproduction information, caption information and a handwritten inscription of numbers.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: July 1941
- Photograph by: Charles "Teenie" Harris, American, 1908 - 1998
- Subject of: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Subject of: Milt Hinton, American, 1910 - 2000
- Subject of: Leon Berry, American, 1908 - 1941
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
- Place depicted: Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Black Press
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Topic: U.S. History, 1933-1945
- Object number: 2014.302.50
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from Charles A. Harris and Beatrice Harris in memory of Charles "Teenie" Harris
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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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: © Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles "Teenie" Harris Archive Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
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