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Mabel Mercer portrait collection

Title: Mabel Mercer portrait collection [graphic].
Publication: <1940?-1984?>

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Mercer, Mabel	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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<3> contact sheets : b&w; 21 x 26 cm.
<34> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
<1> photoprint : silver gelatin, b&w ;
<2> photoprint : col. ;

Summary

Portraits of vocalist Mabel Mercer. There are views of Mercer singing in concert, with composer Alee Wilder, as well as various candid snapshots of her, among them, singing at someone's home and unwrapping a present. Quarter, half and full length portraits are included.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Snapshots – 1960-1989.
Portrait photographs – 1940-1989.
Photoprints – Color – 1980-1989.
Contact sheets – 1970-1979.
Silver gelatin photoprints – 1940-1989.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Photographers include Ted Leyson, Elizabeth Burpee, and Donald Curran.
Some photographs have captions; some are duplicates.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Portrait collection.

Call Number

Sc Photo Mercer, Mabel

OCLC

NYPG085000887-F

Title

Mabel Mercer portrait collection [graphic].

Imprint

<1940?-1984?>

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Portrait collection.

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Added Author

Leyson, Ted. Photographer

Burpee, Elizabeth H. Photographer

Curran, Donald. Photographer

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Mercer, Mabel

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