"Postcards From Manhattan" New Digital Collection |
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From Top to Bottom: Ella Fitzgerald, W.E.B. DuBois, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Paul Robeson, Zora Neale Hurston |
February 2009--"Postcards From Manhattan: The Portrait Photography of Carl Van Vechten" is the most recent digital initiative of the Marquette University archives. The Libraries launched the new collection with a public lecture by Harlem Renaissance scholar and professor Bruce Kellner. The collection currently features more than 700 images of prominent African Americans made by author, critic, and amateur photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964). Van Vechten purchased an early 35mm Leica in the 1930s and over the next three decades he photographed hundreds of artists, musicians, authors, and cultural leaders, including many prominent figures of the Harlem Renaissance. He routinely printed his photographic portraits on postcard stock and mailed them to numerous friends and associates, usually accompanied by greetings on the reverse side. Marquette preserves more than 4,000 Van Vechten images within the papers of Karl L. Priebe, a prominent Wisconsin artist. Van Vechten’s postcard correspondence to Priebe has also been digitized. Marquette's archivists are planning eventually to complete digitization of the entire collection. Tips for Viewing the Postcards MU Digital Collections home page Questions about the collection may be directed to archivist Bill Fliss. |
“Carl Van Vechten’s African American Photographs and the Karl Priebe Legacy” February 9, 2009 Raynor Library Conference Center Professor Bruce Kellner, a leading scholar of the Harlem Renaissance, will introduce the new digital collection of photographic portraits of prominent African Americans made by the author and critic Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964). The public program also commemorates the centennial of the NAACP, founded on February 12, 1909. The event is sponsored by Raynor Memorial Libraries with generous financial support from the departments of English and History. |
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