Research Catalog

Title

Pearl Bailey portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

<1940?-1980?>

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Santore, Charles.
• Wide World Photos.
• Associated Press.
• Betty Lee Hunt Associates (New York, N.Y.)
• Enell, Inc. (Jamaica, N.Y.)
• CBS Television Network.
• William Morris Agency.

Description

• <21> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
• <1> photomechanical print : b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of singer and actress Pearl Bailey, consisting of quarte and three-quarter-length studio portraits and studio head shots used for publicity purposes (ca. 1940s); undated formally posed portraits; publicity photographs for stage productions of "Hello Dolly"; television stills from the "All-Star Salute to Pearl Bailey" (1979) with former First Lady Betty Ford and daughter Dee Dee Bellson; a motion picture still from "All the Fine Young Cannibals" (1960) with Robert Wagner; a publicity photograph for her book "Talking to Myself" (1971); arriving at New York International Airport with husband Louis Bellson (1952); in a group portrait with comedian Bob Hope and others; and attending Duke Ellington's funeral, in New York (1974).

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

• African American singers
• Bellson, Louie, 1924-2009
• Group portraits > 1940-1979
• Arrivals and departures > 1950-1959
• African American motion picture actors and actresses
• Autographs > 1940-1949
• Hello Dolly
• Theatrical productions > United States > 1960-1969
• Publicity photographs > 1940-1979
• Portrait photographs > 1940-1979
• Photomechanical prints > 1970-1979
• African American entertainers
• African American actresses
• Silver gelatin photoprints > 1940-1979
• Ford, Betty, 1918-2011
• Bailey, Pearl
• Hope, Bob, 1903-2003

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1940-1979.
• Group portraits – 1940-1979.
• Publicity photographs – 1940-1979.
• Photomechanical prints – 1970-1979.
• Autographs – 1940-1949.
• Silver gelatin photoprints – 1940-1979.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Photographers include Charles Santore, Wide World Photos and Associated Press.
• Some photographs bear photo agency handstamps. Some items bear printed captions on recto; some items bear printed captions atached to verso; some items bear handwritten captions on verso and/or recto. Some items bear inscriptions. Some items are duplicates.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Bailey, Pearl

OCLC

NYPG085000209-F

Title

Pearl Bailey portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1940?-1980?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives available for some images.

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Added Author

Santore, Charles. Photographer

Wide World Photos.

Associated Press.

Betty Lee Hunt Associates (New York, N.Y.)

Enell, Inc. (Jamaica, N.Y.)

CBS Television Network.

William Morris Agency.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Bailey, Pearl