Research Catalog
Billie Holiday portrait collection
- Title
- Billie Holiday portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1937?-1986?>
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Still image | Use in library | Sc Photo Holiday, Billie | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Description
- <8> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
- <5> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- <2> photomechanical print : b&w ;
- Summary
- Portraits and views of singer Billie Holiday dated approximately between 1936 and 1957. Collection consists of studio head shots and quarter-length studio portraits (promotional stills); a view of Holiday singing during a recording session; views of Holiday performing in concert; in a movie still, with Louis Armstrong, from the film "New Orleans" (1947); and in group portraits with an unidentified woman, and with Count Basie and Billy Eckstine. Also in the collection is a reproduction of the cover of John Chilton's book, "Billie's Blues," which has a portrait of Holiday. Quarter, half and full-length views are included.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Concerts
- Portrait photographs > 1930-1959
- Publicity photographs
- African American singers
- Basie, Count, 1904-1984
- Women singers > United States
- Group portraits > 1930-1959
- Silver gelatin photoprints > 1930-1989
- Sound recordings > United States > Production and direction
- Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
- Eckstine, Billy
- Singing
- Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971
- Genre/Form
- Publicity photographs.
- Portrait photographs – 1930-1959.
- Group portraits – 1930-1959.
- Silver gelatin photoprints – 1930-1989.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Some photographs are inscribed; some have captions or written descriptive information on verso.
- Photographers include Chuck Stewart; some photographs produced by Columbia Records, Joe Glaser Inc. and Associated Booking Corp.
- Terms of Use (note)
- Some photos restricted; permission of photographer required for duplication.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Holiday, Billie
- OCLC
- NYPG085000522-F
- Title
- Billie Holiday portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- <1937?-1986?>
- Terms Of Use
- Some photos restricted; permission of photographer required for duplication.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Local Note
- Negatives available for some images.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Joe Glaser, Inc.Associated Booking Corporation.Columbia Records, Inc.
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Holiday, Billie