Research Catalog

Title

Eusebia Cosme papers, 1927-1973.

Author

Cosme, Eusebia.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
• Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.
• Caignet, Félix B.

Description

• 1.2 lin.ft.
• 1 microfilm reel.

Summary

Correspondence, personal papers, contracts, poems including some written about Cosme, essays, programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, scripts including radio scripts, certificates, posters, and photographs, relating mainly to Cosme's career, including her readings of Afro-Antillian verse, chiefly by Hispanic poets using black themes, as well as Afro-American poets Paul Laurence Dunbar and Langston Hughes. Also, material on Cuba. Correspondents include Felix B. Caignet.

Subjects

• Black people in the motion picture industry
• Black people in the performing arts
• Black people > Cuba
• Posters
• Actresses, Black
• Minorities > New York (State) > New York
• Scripts
• African Americans > New York (State) > New York
• Hispanic Americans > New York (State) > New York
• Poets, Black
• Cosme, Eusebia
• Poems
• Entertainers > United States
• Entertainers > Cuba

Genre/Form

• Scripts.
• Posters.
• Poems.

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Reproduction (note)

• Microfilm.

Biography (note)

• Eusebia Adriana Cosme y Almanza, born in Santiago de Cuba in 1908, was considered the most successful Cuban diseuse of Afro-Antillian verse. Cosme began her career as an interpreter of Afro-Antillian verse in the early 1930s. Her concerts primarily featured the works of Hispanic poets who wrote "poesias negras", or poetry with a black theme. She also performed the works of Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar and did dramatic readings from the Afro-Antillian literary genre.
• During the 1940s Cosme had her own radio show in New York City, "The Eusebia Cosme Show" on Columbia Broadcasting System's Las Cadenas de las Americas, which featured dramatic readings and poetry recitals. She began her acting career in the 1950s appearing in a few plays, including a Mexican production of "El Derecho de Nacer" (The Right to be Born), written by Felix Caignet, the Cuban poet/author and the movies "The Pawnbroker" by Sidney Lumet (1964) and "Mama Dolores" (1970). Among Cosme's other talents were music composition and painting. She composed the music and lyrics for the theme song to "Mama Dolores," as well as songs which were sung by popular singers of the day. She died in Miami in 1976.

Language (note)

• In Spanish and English.

Call Number

Sc Micro R-3619

OCLC

774717750

Author

Cosme, Eusebia.

Title

Eusebia Cosme papers, 1927-1973.

Access

Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Reproduction

Microfilm. New York : New York Public Library, marketed by Scholarly Resources Inc., 1980. 2 microfilm reels; 35 mm. (MN *ZZ-17734)

Biography

Eusebia Adriana Cosme y Almanza, born in Santiago de Cuba in 1908, was considered the most successful Cuban diseuse of Afro-Antillian verse. Cosme began her career as an interpreter of Afro-Antillian verse in the early 1930s. Her concerts primarily featured the works of Hispanic poets who wrote "poesias negras", or poetry with a black theme. She also performed the works of Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar and did dramatic readings from the Afro-Antillian literary genre.

During the 1940s Cosme had her own radio show in New York City, "The Eusebia Cosme Show" on Columbia Broadcasting System's Las Cadenas de las Americas, which featured dramatic readings and poetry recitals. She began her acting career in the 1950s appearing in a few plays, including a Mexican production of "El Derecho de Nacer" (The Right to be Born), written by Felix Caignet, the Cuban poet/author and the movies "The Pawnbroker" by Sidney Lumet (1964) and "Mama Dolores" (1970). Among Cosme's other talents were music composition and painting. She composed the music and lyrics for the theme song to "Mama Dolores," as well as songs which were sung by popular singers of the day. She died in Miami in 1976.

Language

In Spanish and English.

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Added Author

Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.

Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.

Caignet, Félix B.

Research Call Number

Sc Micro R-3619