Research Catalog

Title

Sammy Davis Jr. portrait collection [graphic].

Publication

<1945?-1989?>

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Burley, Alvin J.
• West, George M.
• Layne, Cecil.
• Kriegsmann, James J.
• Benners, Aubrey s.
• Wide World Photos.
• Layne's Studio (New York, N.Y.)
• United Press International.
• NBC Television Network.
• Trans World Airlines.

Description

• <1> photoprint : col.; 18 x 13 cm.
• <12> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• <15> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• <1> photomechanical print : b&w ;

Summary

Portraits of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. ranging from the 1940s to the 1980s. Collection includes promotional stills of Davis and one film still with Dorothy Dandridge from "Porgy and Bess." Davis is seen singing alone and with Trini Lopez, Waylon Jennings, Tom Jones and dancing with Eddie Cantor. Other images show Davis returning from a vacation in Europe, and, on a separate occassion, arriving with Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford and a TWA stewardess. Also included are views of Davis campaigning with Richard Nixon and Bobby Kennedy. Davis is seen at various functions with James Egert Allen, Britt Ekland and Hal Jackson, receiving an award from the Negro Actors Guild with Will Mastin and Howard Robinson, and talking with Stanley Siegel on "The Stanley Siegel Show." Also included is a still from the television series "Ben Casey" depicting Davis with Isabel Cooley (1963). There is also one portrait of Altovise Gore, Davis' wife. Quarter, half and full-length views are included.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Alternative Title

Ben Casey.

Subjects

• Motion picture stills > 1950-1959
• Lawford, Peter, 1923-1984
• Rewards & prizes
• Arrivals & departures
• Jennings, Waylon
• Group portraits > 1940-1989
• African American singers
• Photomechanical prints
• Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
• Political campaigns > United States
• Lopez, Trini
• Mastin, Will
• Silver gelatin photoprints > 1940-1989
• Siegel, Stanley
• Dandridge, Dorothy, 1924-1965
• Singing
• Nixon, Richard M (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
• Allen, James E (James Egert)
• Gore, Altovise
• Ekland, Britt, 1942-
• Robinson, Howard
• Jones, Tom, 1940-
• Publicity photographs > 1950-1979
• Davis, Sammy, Jr., 1925-1990
• Jackson, Hal
• Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964
• Portrait photographs > 1940-1989
• African American entertainers
• Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998

Genre/Form

• Motion picture stills – 1950-1959.
• Group portraits – 1940-1989.
• Portrait photographs – 1940-1989.
• Publicity photographs – 1950-1979.
• Photomechanical prints.
• Silver gelatin photoprints – 1940-1989.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Photographs have captions; some photographs have written descriptive information; some photographs have airbrush marks; some are duplicates.
• Photographers include Cecil Layne, Alvin J. Burley, James J. Krregsmann and others.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Davis, Sammy Jr.

OCLC

NYPG085000649-F

Title

Sammy Davis Jr. portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1945?-1989?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait Collection.

Local Note

Negatives exist for some images.

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Added Author

Burley, Alvin J. Photographer

West, George M. Photographer

Layne, Cecil. Photographer

Kriegsmann, James J. Photographer

Benners, Aubrey s. Photographer

Wide World Photos.

Layne's Studio (New York, N.Y.)

United Press International.

NBC Television Network.

Trans World Airlines.

Added Title

Ben Casey.

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Davis, Sammy Jr.