Photographic print of Sam Cooke and Betty Jo Spyropulos at Club Harlem: Museum Object and Cultural History
Photographic print of Sam Cooke and Betty Jo Spyropulos at Club Harlem: Date: 1963-1964. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Sam Cooke, American, 1931 - 1964.
The object in the museum catalogue
A black and white photograph of Sam Cooke and an unidentified woman seated at the bar at Club Harlem in Atlantic City, New Jersey. His right hand is around her waist and they are both smoking cigarettes.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1963-1964
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Sam Cooke, American, 1931 - 1964
- Subject of: Club Harlem, American, 1935 - 1986
- Subject of: Betty Jo Spryopulos, American
- Type: black-and-white photographs
- Type: portraits
- Medium: ink on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image and Sheet): 7 × 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
- Place depicted: Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Nightlife
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2011.145.9
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Henrietta W. Shelton, Chicken Bone Beach Historical Foundation, Inc.
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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