Research Catalog

Title

Samuel Edwin Heyward photograph collection [graphic].

Author

Heyward, Sammy, 1904-

Publication

1938-1974.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Bernard, Bruno.
• Bakchy, Boris.
• Kriegsmann, James J.
• Mc Adams, David.
• Rossner, Harry.
• Tucker, Lorenzo.
• Custom Photo Studios (Astoria, N.Y.)

Found In

p1tc Heyward, Sammy, 1904- Samuel Edwin Heyward papers, 1917-1982 (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A108

Description

• 143 items (.3 lin. ft., 1 box); 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.
• 43 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 25 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 21 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 28 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 7 photographic prints : col. ;
• 10 photographic prints : col. ;
• 1 photographic print : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 1 photomechanical print : halftone, b&w ;
• 3 polaroid photographic prints : b&w, one col. ;
• 3 photographic postcards : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 1 postcard : photomechanical, col. ;

Summary

The Samuel Edwin Heyward Photograph Collection depicts some aspects of his personal life and his professional career as a musician and singer, from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Subject

• Heyward, Sammy, 1904-
• Heyward, Annie Edwine, 1902-1982
• Cooper, Opal
• Hall, Juanita, 1901-1968
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• Handy, W. C. 1873-1958
• Patterson, Massie
• Rodgers, Gene
• Neumann, Vera
• African American musicians
• Guitarists > United States
• African American composers
• African American singers
• African Americans in the performing arts
• African Americans > Social life > 1930-1979
• Rites & ceremonies > 1930-1979
• Concerts
• Children > 1950-1979

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1930-1979.
• Group portraits – 1930-1979.
• Publicity photographs.
• Snapshots – 1950-1979.
• Photographic postcards.
• Postcards – 1970-1979.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1930-1979.
• Dye coupler prints – 1950-1979.
• Instant camera photographs – 1960-1969.
• Halftone photomechanical prints – 1950-1959.
• Inscriptions – 1930-1979.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs have photographer's or photography studio's hand stamp on verso; some photographs bear photographer's or photography studio's blindstamp or name printed on recto. Some items have handwritten notations on verso; some bear printed captions on recto; some photographs bear inscriptions on either verso or recto. Some images are duplicates.
• Collection contains work by Bruno of Hollywood, David McAdams, Harry Rossner, James J. Kriegsmann, Boris Bakchy and Lorenzo Tucker, among others.

Biography (note)

• Samuel Edwin Heyward, Jr., musician, singer and composer, was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1904.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Samuel Edwin Heyward Papers, 1917-1982.

Call Number

Sc Photo Samuel Edwin Heyward Collection

OCLC

NYPG99-F242

Author

Heyward, Sammy, 1904-

Title

Samuel Edwin Heyward photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

1938-1974.

Biography

Samuel Edwin Heyward, Jr., musician, singer and composer, was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1904. Raised and educated in Savannah and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Heyward attended the New England Conservatory of Music, in Boston, to study violin and viola during the early 1930s. After graduation in 1932, he moved to New York where he learned piano, saxophone and trumpet. While he initially gravitated towards classical music, Heyward followed popular musical tastes and embraced classical jazz.

Heyward, as a violinist and violist, played for symphonic and opera orchestras, chamber ensembles and jazz combos; as a guitarist, he appeared on television and radio, and for folk festivals and concert appearances, playing and singing with his calypso quintet. He also wrote and published several musical compositions, including "Checking on the Freedom Train" (1947), "Ballad of Harry Moore" (1952) and "Penta Blues Suite" (1960), all co-written with poet Langston Hughes, as well as "The Elfin Ballet Suite" (1943), "Suite for Violin Alone" (n.d.), and "The Love Cycle" (1961). Heyward also served as president of the New Amsterdam Musical Association (1971-1979), operated a music school from his residence for about ten years, and frequently gave church concerts. Heyward was married for 45 years to Annie Edwine Smyer, a nursing administrator at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx. He died in New York City in 1982, five days after Edwine died.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Samuel Edwin Heyward Papers, 1917-1982.

Local Note

Sc MG 160

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Added Author

Bernard, Bruno. Photographer

Bakchy, Boris. Photographer

Kriegsmann, James J. Photographer

Mc Adams, David. Photographer

Rossner, Harry. Photographer

Tucker, Lorenzo. Photographer

Custom Photo Studios (Astoria, N.Y.)

Found In:

p1tc Heyward, Sammy, 1904- Samuel Edwin Heyward papers, 1917-1982 (CStRLIN)NYPW89-A108

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Samuel Edwin Heyward Collection