Object Details
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Printed by
- Unidentified
- Distributed by
- Harry Walker Agency, American, founded 1946
- Subject of
- Gladys Bentley, American, 1907 - 1960
- Description
- Black and white photographic postcard of the singer and musician Gladys Bentley dressed in a men's white tuxedo and white top hat, holding a cane at her side tucked under her arm. The phrase: "America's Greatest Sepia Player" is printed down the left side of the postcard and the phrase: "The Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs" is printed down the right side of the postcard.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- 1946 - 1949
- Object number
- 2011.57.25.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- photographic postcards
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, with ink on cardboard
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 5 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (13.3 x 8.6 cm)
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Movement
- Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement)
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Blues (Music)
- Entertainers
- Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Photography
- Singers (Musicians)
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2011.57.25.1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5b0abe01f-8fb7-49a6-b499-8099d4b7408b
