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Hilda Simms portrait collection

Title
Hilda Simms portrait collection [graphic].
Publication
<1940?-1969?>

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Still imageUse in library Sc Photo Simms, HildaSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Additional Authors
  • Benners, Aubrey S.
  • Greene, Vic.
  • Layne's Studio (New York, N.Y.)
  • King Photographers (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Description
  • <1> transparency : col.; 11 x 8 cm.
  • <10> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
  • <4> photoprints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
Summary
Portraits of actress Hilda Simms. Includes views of Simms sewing a gown, stepping out of a carriage, with Gina Lollobrigida, with Noble Sissle at a prize drawing, doing a radio broadcast and presenting an award. Full, half and quarter length portraits are included.
Donor/Sponsor
Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
Subject
  • Simms, Hilda, 1918-1994
  • Sissle, Noble, 1889-1975
  • Lollobrigida, Gina, 1927-2023
  • African American actresses
  • African American motion picture actors and actresses
  • Radio broadcasting > 1940-1959
  • Sewing > 1950-1969
  • Rewards & prizes > 1940-1959
Genre/Form
  • Group portraits – 1940-1969.
  • Portrait photographs – 1940-1969.
  • Silver gelatin photoprints – 1940-1969.
Note
  • Title devised by cataloger.
  • Photographers include Aubrey Benners, Vic Greene, Layne's Studio and others.
  • Some photographs have captions; some are cropped; one is torn.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
Call Number
Sc Photo Simms, Hilda
OCLC
NYPG087000420-F
Title
Hilda Simms portrait collection [graphic].
Imprint
<1940?-1969?>
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Portrait Collection.
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Added Author
Benners, Aubrey S. Photographer
Greene, Vic. Photographer
Layne's Studio (New York, N.Y.)
King Photographers (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
Research Call Number
Sc Photo Simms, Hilda
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