Research Catalog
Bricktop
- Title
- Bricktop / Bricktop with James Haskins.
- Author
- Bricktop, 1894-1984
- Publication
- New York : Atheneum, 1983.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Not available - In use until 2024-10-28 - Please for assistance. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 84-101 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | MSS DIV IGIC BIO B27 | Schwarzman Building - Manuscripts & Archives Room 328 |
| Text | Request in advance | JNE 83-31 | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Haskins, James, 1941-2005
- Description
- xviii, 300 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits; 25 cm
- Summary
- A famous Black entertainer describes her childhood, her career in vaudeville, and her life as a successful cabaret singer in Paris.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies
- Biography.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Early years -- On the road -- Saloon singer -- The War years -- Prohibition -- Paris -- Cole Porter ... and Josephine Baker -- Bricktop's -- Saloonkeeper par excellence -- The golden era -- And we all played on -- The crisis -- New York -- Mexico City -- Return to Paris -- The holy hustler -- Hollywood-on-the-Tiber -- Old warhorse.
- Call Number
- JNE 83-31
- ISBN
- 0689113498
- 9780689113499
- LCCN
- 82073006
- OCLC
- 9154523
- Author
- Bricktop, 1894-1984, author.
- Title
- Bricktop / Bricktop with James Haskins.
- Publisher
- New York : Atheneum, 1983.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Haskins, James, 1941-2005, author.
- Research Call Number
- JNE 83-31Sc E 84-101MSS DIV IGIC BIO B27