Research Catalog
Pearl Bailey portrait collection
- Title
- Pearl Bailey portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1940?-1980?>
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Picture | Use in library | Sc Photo Bailey, Pearl | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
Details
- Additional Authors
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Santore, Charles. PhotographerWide 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