Monday, December 17, 2007

Iconography File

This file represents photographs or references. Most items in the list are illustrations on sheet music, or pictures in programs. Few are the actual photos.

ADAMS, ELWYN
......National Negro Opera Company Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Box 5, folder 4

ADAMS, LESLIE
......National Negro Opera Company Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress, Box 6, folder 6

ADAMS, MAMIE S
.....Sheet music cover. "There is Room in Heaven For You" by Wallace D. Adams. M2199.A

ADAMS, WELLINGTON
......Harmon Foundation Collection, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress, Box 55



ADDISON, ADELE (Voice of Dorothy Dandridge)
......Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html

ALEXANDER, MILDRED
.....Come Enter My Heart. M2199.A

ALFORD, DEACON ELSTON
.....A Zeal Burning in my heart. M2199.A

ANDERSON, AL (BMSC)
....."My Darktown Gal" by Lee Johnson. Sheet music cover

ANDERSON, MALETUS
.....Pitts C, 8/3/39, Front Page

ANDERSON, MAMIE
....."My Darktown Gal" by Lee Johnson. Sheet music cover

ARTISTS
.....Charles White, talented young negro artist. Mural at Hampton, People's Voice, 1/29/44, 15

AUSTIN, PATTI (7 Years Old)
.....Cash Box, 4/19/58, p41



BANKS, RALPH
.....Pitts C, 5/29/26, p6

BETHEL, FANNIE
.....Chair of a Detroit Negro Opera annual pre-opera ball. Chi Def, 5/6/39, 16

BIGGERS, MRS LELA M
.....Biggers Business College Song, M1959.B65W

BOYD, HENRY ALLEN
.....President of the Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company (Nashville), the oldest Negro bank in the country, Pitts C, 8/17/29 (2/1)

BRADFORD AND CRUMBLEY (BSMC)
.....New York Prime Favorites. Sheet music cover. "The Heart That I Love" by Lee Harrell, Copyrighted by Lee Harrell (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 1902)



BRISTER, SILAS W. (Sr)
.....New freedom's training ground. M1630.B

BROOMFIELD, LEROY
.....Partner of Famous Easter dancing team (Aurora Greely, other partner). Pitts C, 8/10/29 (3/2)


CHARLTON, MELVILLE

Melville Charlton was the first black artist admitted to the American Guild of Organists.

He was born in New York City on August 26, 1880, received piano instruction from E.B. Kinney (a Dvorak pupil), won a free scholarship at the National Conservatory of Music, and studied organ and composition under Charles Heinroth (musical director and organ recitalist, Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, PA). In 1915, he passed an examination conducted by Horatio C. Parker and received the degree of Associate of the American Guild of Organists. In 1924, he received an honorary doctorate from Howard University.

He was organist at Union Theological Seminary and a Jewish Temple in New York City.
He died November 13, 1973 in New York City.

CHILDREN (PICTURE OF FOUR BLACK CHILDREN ON SHEET MUSIC COVER) (BSMC)
.....Sheet music cover. "Happy Little Coons in Dixie" by Julia S. Holloway. Adams Music: Passaic, N.J. 1903)



COBB, WILLIAM MONTAGUE
.....Violinist and professor of anatomy at Howard University, http://www.jstor.org/view/10773711/di007676/00p0501m/0

COLE, JOSEPH
.....First african american to sing with the Detroit Civic Orchestra, Chic Def, 2/5/38, 6

Davis, Nathaniel C.
.....A&I State Normal March, M28.Davis

DAWSON, MARY CARDWELL
.....National Negro Opera Company Collection, Library of Congress, Music Division



DAWSON, WILLIAM L.
.....Pitts C, 11/24/34 (8/2)

DEPPE, LOUS B.
.....Baritone. Pitts C, 12/7/29 (3/2)

DIXIE JUBILEE SINGERS
.....Eva Jessye, Dir. Pitts C, 5/22/26, p7

DIXIE MELODY MASTERS
.....http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/chau1/pdf/dixiemel/2/brochure.pdf

DIXON, DEAN
.....Prints and Photographs Catalog, Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html

DIXON, VANCE
.....Pitts C, 1/9/26, p10

DOMINGO, EULALIE
.....concert pianist, originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Pitts C, 8/21/26, 6

DUCKETT, RUTH
.....Sam Perryman Collection



DUNHAM, KATHERINE
.....People's Voice, 7/1/44, p22

DOUGLASS, FREDERICK (BSMC)
.....Sheet music by W.C. Handy. Frederick Douglass photo top right



DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL MARCH
.....Music by Isabelle R. Hammond. Arranged by Wellington Adams (see his photo)



DUNBAR, RUDOLPH
.....http://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/04/berlin-philharmonics-first-black.html

FREEMAN, H. LAWRENCE
.....Opera composer, Amst News, 8/29/28, 7

EVERETT, DORETHA
.....No Weapon, Mildred Alexander, M2199.A

FLEMING, CHARLES W
.....6 Women, 4 Men on Afro Honor Roll, Wash Afro, 4/24/71, 13

GRAY, MALVIN
.....Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/

GREELY, AURORA
.....Partner in Famous Eastern dancing team (Leroy Broomfield), Pitts C., 8/10829 (3/2)
.....Pitts C, 5/26/26, p6

HAGAN, HELEN E. (1893-1964)
.....Crisis Magazine, Nov,. 1911, 18 (also Helen Hagan: also see clipping under "Yale"). First black to earn a B MUS. in music from Yale 91912)

HALL, ADELAIDE
.....Get your Body Off That Rockin' Chair. M1739.2.M (Morton Morrow)

HALL, PROF FREDERICK
.....Prof Frederick D. Hall returned to US from 2 year study in Europe and West Africa, Amst News, 8/17/35 (5/1) Pictured with his wife

HANDY, W.C. (BSMC)
.....Composer of sheet music. Photo bottom right.



HAPPY LITTLE COONS IN DIXIE (BSMC)
....By Julia S. Holloway (sheet music cover)

HEBRON, J. HARVEY
.....University of Pennsylvania (Marian Anderson website0


HINDERAS, NATALIE
.....New York World-Telegram/Sun Collection, Prints & Photographs, Library of Congress.

HINES, PROF. J. EARLE
....It means a lot to know jesus for yourself. Doris Akers, M2199.A

HOFFMAN (JR), J.W.
.....Photograph on a sheet music cover. Violinist. Song title: Love's Greeting Waltz. Publisher, J.W. Hoffman, Jr., 1904. M32.H



HOLLOMAN, CHARLOTTE WESLEY
.....Sam Perryman Collection



.....Singer Charlotte Holloman has sculptured face, long brown hair. Jet, 2/21/54, p21 "Are the Prettiest Girls from ashington?

HOLMES, HENRY
.....Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/

JACKSON, MAHALIA
....A Spring in Galilee, Margaret Aikens, M2199.A

JOHNSON, DR. CHARLES S.
.....Pitts C, 12/1/34 (2/1)

JOHNSON, JESSIE LEE
.....Bennett College (Female) Quartette, Pitts C, 8/3/29, 6/2

JONES, LOUIA VAUGH
.....Center. Pittsburgh Courier Collection (Washington Edition), Howard University



KNIGHT, GLADYS (8 years old)
.....Winner of the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, 1952. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html



LEWIS/ROBINSON
.....Anne Harrison Lewis and Lawrence Robinson. A dance team. Afro, 4/8/50, p18

LEWIS, ANNE HARRISON
.....Of the dance team of Lewis and Robinson. Afro, 4/18/50, p18

LINCOLN UNIVERSITY ACAPPELLA CHOIR
.....Bulletin. National Association of Teachers of Singing Journal (N.A.T.S.)Nov-Dec 1953, p3

MCFERRIN, ROBERT
.....Jet, 12/16/54, p58

MOORE, WILLIAM TOOTS
.....I've Cried My Last Tear. William Toots Moore, M1630.2.M

MOSES, ETHEL
.....Most beautiful American colored girl, Pitts C, 8/17/29, Feature section

MUSE, JESSIE ESTELLE
.....Crisis Magazine, Nov. 1911, 18 (also Helen Hagan: also see clipping under "Yale")

NELSON, ANNIE B.
.....Sam Perryman Collection



NEW WESLEY AME ZION CHURCH
.....See: Organ

NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL QUARTETTE
.....Pitts C, 11/9/29 (5/2)

ORGAN (PIPE ORGAN)
.....On sheet music cover. "Marche Religioso" by Leonard Z. Johnson. Picture of pipe organ dedicated to New Wesley AME Zion Church (Harrisburgh, PA)


PEELER, P. LAWRENCE
.....Pitts C, 12/29/34 (6/1)

PERRYMAN, SAM



PHILLIPS, CARRYE MAE
.....Pitts C, 8/24/29 (2/1)

PILGRIM TRAVELERS
....Jesus i'm thankful. M2199.Alexander, J.W.

PRICE, CHATTIS
.....Bennett College (Female) Quartette, Pitts C, 8/3/29, 6/2

RAHN, MURIEL
.....Chi Def, 12/4/43, 10

RAY, WILLIAM
.....Sam Perryman Collection



Rector, Eddie. Dancer. Pitts C, 5/1/26, p10

RHODES, ALBERT, Tenor. Wash Afro, 5/1/71, 5

RICHARDSON, MAYME
.....President of the Detroit Branch of the National Assoc of Negro Musicians (1920s), NNOC: 14/33

ROBESON, PAUL
.....The Peat Bog Soldiers (Die Moorsoldaten). M1735.M

ROBINSON, LAWRENCE
.....Of the dance team of Lewis/Robinson (Anne Harrison). Afro 4/8/50, p18

ROYE TRIO
.....Pitts C, 5/3/26, woman's page

SANDIFER, L'FREDA
.....Bennett College (Female) Quartette, Pitts C, 8/3/29, 6/2

SANDRIDGE, JUSTIN
.....Pianist, appears in recital at Carnegie Music hall, Friday night, Pitts C, 11/16/29 (8/1)

SEWELL, EDITH
.....People's Voice, 2/12/44, 31

Skinner, Arturo
.....The hour of deliverance, M2199.Alexander, Mildred.

TALBERT, WEN
....Pitts C, 10/9/26, 13

TRENHOLM, H.C.
.....President of Alabama State in the mid 1920s.

WASHINGTON EVENING STAR
.....Inez DeM. Keck. M28.K



WATKINS, MARY
.....http://www.oaklandopera.org/FANNIEMAY.html

WEEKS, S.S.
.....Amst News, 8/17/35 (5/1)

WEEMS, E.L.
.....W.L.Weems who owns and operates the Weems Photo Studio at 327 Broad Street, Jacksonville, FL. Grad of Tuskegee School of Phography under the late C.M. Battey, has worked in the best white studios in the south. Worked in Atlanta where he was staff photographer for the Atlanta Constitution. Studio in Jacksonville, which has been open for two years, is valued at $2500. Pitts C, 12/7/29 (2/1). Photo

WEINGLASS, DEWEY
.....World's greatest colored russian dancer, Pitts C, 9/4/26, 3

WHITE, CHARLES
.....Talented negro artist. Has mural at Hampton. People's Voice, 1/29/44, 15

WILBERFORCE SEXTETTE
.....Will give recital, 11/22/29 in Pittsburgh, Pitts C, 11/16/29 (8/1)

WORK, FREDERICK
.....Brother of John Wesley Work, Pitts C, 8/3/29 (11/1)

WRIGHT, NANNIE
.....Bennett College (Female) Quartette, Pitts C, 8/3/29, 6/2

(UNIDENTIFIABLE)

.....BLACK MALE IN UNIFORM...New Mac Cuist Nagel March. G. Katzenberger. M28.K



PIANOS



Source: Pittsburgh Courier, 12/15/28, 10. Ellison piano.
L.F. Ellison Piano House, 967 Liberty Avenue

Source: Sheet music cover. Fischer piano. Established 1840.
J. & C. Fischer, 110 Fifth Avenue, Cor. 16th St., NEW YORK
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Source: Sheet music cover. Hafelin piano. Arnold Hafelin, manufacturer

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