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Genre/Form: | Portrait photographs Group portraits Snapshots Photographic postcards Publicity photographs Silver gelatin prints Photographic prints Dye diffusion transfer prints Instant camera photographs Halftone photomechanicals |
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Named Person: | Bricktop; Julie Andrews; Pearl Bailey; Josephine Baker; Bennie Barnes; Louis Bellson; Tony Bennett; Otis Blackwell; Louis Bromfield; Ralph J Bunche; Ray Charles; Salvador Dalí; Peter Duconge; Duke Ellington; Errol Flynn; Elliott Gould; Huntington Hartford; Lena Horne; Barabara Hutton; John, Pope; Eartha Kitt; Ed Koch; Mabel Mercer; Burgess Meredith; Jelly Roll Morton; Ethel Moses; Julia Moses; Lucia Lynn Moses; Odetta; Paul, Pope; Pius, Pope; Cole Porter; Hugh Shannon; Fulton J Sheen; Elizabeth Taylor; Fats Waller; Clifton Webb; Orson Welles; Billy Wilder; Spencer Williams; Tennessee Williams; Arturo Lopez Willshaw; Robert Wise; Julie Andrews; Pearl Bailey; Josephine Baker; Louie Bellson; Tony Bennett; Otis Blackwell; Bricktop; Louis Bromfield; Ralph J Bunche; Ray Charles; Salvador Dalí; Duke Ellington; Errol Flynn; Elliott Gould; Huntington Hartford; Lena Horne; John, Pope; Eartha Kitt; Ed Koch; Mabel Mercer; Jelly Roll Morton; Ethel Moses; Lucia Lynn Moses; Odetta; Paul, Pope; Pius, Pope; Cole Porter; Hugh Shannon; Fulton J Sheen; Elizabeth Taylor; Fats Waller; Clifton Webb; Orson Welles; Billy Wilder; Spencer Williams; Tennessee Williams; Robert Wise |
Material Type: | Graphic, Photograph, Picture, Artwork reproduction |
Document Type: | Visual material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bricktop; Bettini; Guglielmo Felici; Morey Engle; Raymond Ross; Marvin Smith; Roger Jones; Bertil Mollberger; Declan Haun; Ottica Fotografia (Rome); Foto Partenope (Naples); Interpanoramic Photo (Rome) |
OCLC Number: | 82634080 |
In: | Bricktop |
Notes: | Title devised by cataloger. Some items have photographer's or photography studio's handstamp on verso; some items have photographer's name printed on recto; some items have photographer's blindstamp on recto; some items have photographer's name printed on verso and recto of matte; some items have photographer's name typewritten on verso; one item has photographer's signature on recto. Many items have handwritten captions or notations on either verso or recto; some items are inscribed on recto; some items have printed captions on either verso or recto. Some items are duplicates; some items are reproductions. Collection contains work by Raymond Ross, Carlo Riccardi, Morris A. Engle, D. Rousse, Ottica Fotografia, Bettini, and Marvin Smith, among others. |
Description: | 777 items (1.9 lin. ft.) 110 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller. 100 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller. 173 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 18 x 24 cm. or smaller. 66 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 24 x 18 cm. or smaller. 21 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 13 x 18 cm. or smaller. 30 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 18 x 13 cm. or smaller. 22 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 19 x 9 cm. or smaller. 39 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 9 x 14 cm. or smaller. 16 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 36 x 28 cm. or smaller. 20 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ; 24 x 36 cm. or smaller. 22 photographic prints : col. ; 27 x 21 cm. or smaller. 13 photographic prints : col. ; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller. 50 photographic prints : col. ; 13 x 9 cm. or smaller. 61 photographic prints : col. ; 9 x 9 cm. or smaller. 17 photographic postcards : b&w ; 14 x 9 cm. 11 photographic postcards : b&w ; 11 x 15 cm. or smaller. 5 photomechanicals : halftone, b&w ; 30 x 21 cm. or smaller. 1 photocopy : b&w ; 20 x 22 cm. |
Abstract:
The collection includes studio and candid portraits of Bricktop, some members of her family and friends; views of the activities of individuals who patronized or performed at her nightclubs in Paris and Rome; and views of Bricktop during her later years after her return to the United States. The collection has no images of her Paris club, The Music Box, from the mid-1920s, or of her American and Mexican clubs from the 1940s.
Personal and family photographs include Bricktop, as an infant, in a group portrait with her mother and relatives (ca. 1894); a photo collage of Bricktop and her mother (1915); some portraits of her as a young woman before moving to Paris (1913-1924); her mother and sister, Ethel; Bricktop and her husband, saxophonist Peter Duconge, in Paris (1929); and an undated snapshot of Bricktop, Peter and a group of friends at an outdoor restaurant.
Images of Bricktop during her later years include views of her doing charity work in Naples, Italy, after World War II, and at an unidentified children's hospital in Denver, Colorado; audiences with Popes Pius XII (1957), John XXIII (1961) and Paul VI (1964); visiting with director Robert Wise and actress Julie Andrews on the set of the film "Star" (1967); snapshots of her 80th birthday party in Chicago (1974); being honored on "Bricktop Day" in Chicago (1978); meeting with songwriter Otis Blackwell and others gathered to present her with a citation (1978); and with a group of friends in her New York apartment (ca. 1980). Included in this series are various portraits, group portraits and snapshots of friends, some of which depict parties and social gatherings, including views of Bricktop and actor Errol Flynn clowning at a party for Flynn's wife, Pat, in Naples, Italy (1952).
Images of Bricktop's career as an entertainer and as hostess and proprieter of Bricktop's include a group portrait of her, with Jelly Roll Morton and others, outside the Cadillac Cafe in Los Angeles (1917); posing outside the Cafe Le Grand Duc, where she performed (1925); group portraits of her posing with entertainers and customers in her club, Bricktop's, in Paris, including Mabel Mercer, Spencer Williams, Fats Waller, and Louis Bromfield (1932); an undated view of the front of her club, spelled on the marquee as Brick Top's; views and group portraits of her chatting, singing to and posing with patrons in her re-opened Bricktop's in Paris (1950), and at Bricktop's in Rome (dated 1951-1962); and views of her singing at the casino at Estoril, Portugal (1952), and at various locations in New York City and Boston (1975, 1979). Among her patrons at the 1950 Bricktop's in Paris are Elizabeth Taylor, Duke Ellington, Salvador Dali, Arturo Lopez Willshaw, Burgess Meredith, Lena Horne, and Barbara Hutton; her patrons at Bricktop's in Rome include Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Bennie Barnes, Clifton Webb, Louis Bellson and Pearl Baily, with whom Bricktop is shown performing (1957).
A portion of the collection consists of portraits and group portraits, some of which are publicity stills and autographed to Bricktop, of celebrities, public figures, Roman Catholic clergy, and friends. Among these are images of singers Ray Charles, Odetta and Tony Bennett, diplomat Ralph Bunche, performer Josephine Baker, composer Cole Porter, New York City mayor Ed Koch, and Bricktop's goddaughter, Tiberia Mitri. Also included is a group of photographs of the Moses sisters, Julia, Ethel and Lucia, who were stage performers.
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- Bricktop, -- 1894-1984.
- Andrews, Julie.
- Bailey, Pearl.
- Baker, Josephine, -- 1906-1975.
- Barnes, Bennie.
- Bellson, Louis.
- Bennett, Tony, -- 1926-
- Blackwell, Otis.
- Bromfield, Louis, -- 1896-1956.
- Bunche, Ralph J. -- (Ralph Johnson), -- 1904-1971.
- Charles, Ray, -- 1930-2004.
- Dalí, Salvador, -- 1904-1989.
- Duconge, Peter.
- Ellington, Duke, -- 1899-1974.
- Flynn, Errol, -- 1909-1959.
- Gould, Elliott.
- Hartford, Huntington, -- 1911-2008.
- Horne, Lena.
- Hutton, Barabara, -- 1912-
- John -- XXIII, -- Pope, -- 1881-1963.
- Kitt, Eartha.
- Koch, Ed, -- 1924-2013.
- Mercer, Mabel, -- 1900-1984.
- Meredith, Burgess, -- 1918-
- Morton, Jelly Roll, -- -1941.
- Moses, Ethel.
- Moses, Julia.
- Moses, Lucia Lynn, -- 1908-
- Odetta, -- 1930-2008.
- Paul -- VI, -- Pope, -- 1897-1978.
- Pius -- XII, -- Pope, -- 1876-1958.
- Porter, Cole, -- 1891-1964.
- Shannon, Hugh.
- Sheen, Fulton J. -- (Fulton John), -- 1895-1979.
- Taylor, Elizabeth, -- 1932-2011.
- Waller, Fats, -- 1904-1943.
- Webb, Clifton, -- 1893-1966.
- Welles, Orson, -- 1915-1985.
- Wilder, Billy, -- 1906-2002.
- Williams, Spencer, -- 1889-1965.
- Williams, Tennessee, -- 1911-1983.
- Willshaw, Arturo Lopez.
- Wise, Robert, -- 1914-2005.
- Bellson, Louie, -- 1924-2009.
- Blackwell, Otis, -- 1931-2002.
- Businesswomen.
- African American business enterprises -- France -- Paris.
- African American business enterprises -- Italy -- Rome.
- Women-owned business enterprises -- France -- Paris.
- Women-owned business enterprises -- Italy -- Rome.
- African Americans -- France -- Paris.
- African Americans -- Italy -- Rome.
- Entertainers.
- Nightclubs -- France -- Paris.
- Nightclubs -- Italy -- Rome.
- Socialites -- France -- Paris.
- Soicalites -- Italy -- Rome.
- African American business enterprises.
- African Americans.
- Women-owned business enterprises.
- France -- Paris.
- Italy -- Rome.
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