Research Catalog
Honi Coles portrait collection
- Title
- Honi Coles portrait collection [graphic].
- Publication
- <1930?-1989?>
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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 Coles, Honi | Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints |
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- Description
- <4> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w; 26 x 21 cm. or smaller.
- <1> photoprint : silver gelatin, b&w ;
- Summary
- Portraits of dancer Honi Coles. Collection includes shots of Coles dancing, alone and with Cholly Atkins and Billy Eckstine at the Apollo. A youthful Coles is also shown with Ruth Mason. An older Coles is depicted at the Schomburg Center with Howard Dodson and Cheryl Shackelton. Half and full-length views are included
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Tap dancing
- Theatrical productions > New York (State) > New York
- African American dance
- Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street)
- Coles, Honi, 1911-1992
- Silver gelatin photoprints > 1930-1989
- Dodson, Howard
- Shackelton, Cheryl
- African American entertainers
- Atkins, Cholly
- Mason, Ruth
- Portrait photographs > 1930-1989
- Male dancers > United States
- Eckstine, Billy
- Group portraits > 1930-1989
- Genre/Form
- Group portraits – 1930-1989.
- Portrait photographs – 1930-1989.
- Silver gelatin photoprints – 1930-1989.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Some photographs have captions; some are duplicates; some photographs have written descriptive information; some photographs are cropped.
- Photographers include Joyce Lee and Charles Stewart.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Call Number
- Sc Photo Coles, Honi
- OCLC
- NYPG085000751-F
- Title
- Honi Coles portrait collection [graphic].
- Imprint
- <1930?-1989?>
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
- Local Note
- Negatives exist for some images.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Lee, Joyce. PhotographerStewart, Charles. Photographer
- Research Call Number
- Sc Photo Coles, Honi