Print of Cab Calloway standing in front of a French sign: Museum Object and Cultural History
Print of Cab Calloway standing in front of a French sign: Date: 1952-1954. Photograph by: Unidentified. Subject of: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994.
The object in the museum catalogue
Black and white photograph of Cab Calloway standing in front of a French advertisement for Cab Calloway, reading "Avec Cab Calloway." Calloway is depicted wearing a beret and a checkered suit with a white button up shirt and patterned tie. He is facing the camera, but gazing slightly past it. Black type on back of photograph reads, [0919].
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1952-1954
- Photograph by: Unidentified
- Subject of: Cab Calloway, American, 1907 - 1994
- Type: gelatin silver prints
- Type: portraits
- Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions: H x W (Image): 3 1/4 × 4 3/4 in. (8.2 × 12 cm)
- Dimensions: H x W (Sheet): 3 7/16 × 5 in. (8.7 × 12.7 cm)
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Composers (Musicians)
- Topic: Conductors (Musicians)
- Topic: Jazz (Music)
- Topic: Photography
- Topic: Singers (Musicians)
- Object number: 2013.237.5.2
- 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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