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Pearl Bailey portrait collection

Title
Pearl Bailey portrait collection [graphic].
Publication
<1940?-1980?>

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PictureUse in library Sc Photo Bailey, PearlSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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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
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
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