Research Catalog

Title

Eusebia Cosme photograph collection [graphic].

Author

Cosme, Eusebia.

Publication

[193-?]-[197-]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Moreno, Armando.
• Salas, O.
• Conrad, T. (Teresa), 1958-
• Marti, J.
• Angelo.
• Jones, Lois Mailou.
• Fotografo Ruvalcaba.
• Magana (Mexico)
• Narcy Studios (Havana, Cuba)

Found In

p1bc Cosme, Eusebia Adriana, 1911-1977? Eusebia Cosme papers, 1927-1973 (CstRLIN)NYPW89-A71

Description

• 403 items (.8 lin. ft., 3 boxes); 21 x 26 cm. and smaller.
• 151 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 110 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-col. ;
• 53 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 74 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-col. ;
• 4 photographic prints : col. ;
• 9 photographic postcards : b&w ;
• 1 photomechanical print : halftone, b&w ;
• 1 clipping : halftone, b&w ;
• 1 photomechanical print : col. ;

Summary

The Eusebia Cosme Photograph Collection mainly depicts aspects of her public life and professional career as a diseuse and actress, between the 1930s to the early 1970s.

Alternative Title

• El derecho de nacer.
• Mama Dolores.
• The pawnbroker.

Subject

• Cosme, Eusebia
• Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
• Palés Matos, Luis
• Fiumi, Lionello, 1894-
• Poets, Black
• Actresses, Black
• Black people in the performing arts
• Entertainers > Latin America
• Entertainers > United States
• Latin Americans > Social life
• Latin Americans in motion pictures
• Black people in the motion picture industry
• Theatrical productions > 1950-1969
• Concerts > 1940-1959
• Radio programs > New York (State) > New York
• Sidewalk art exhibitions > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1930-1969.
• Group portraits – 1940-1979.
• Snapshots.
• Film stills – 1960-1979.
• Publicity photographs – 1930-1979.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1930-1979.
• Dye coupler prints – 1950-1969.
• Reproductions – 1940-1969.
• Halftone photomechanical prints.
• Clippings.
• Hand-coloring.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs have photographer's or photography studio's handstamp on verso; many photographs have photographer's or photography studio's name inscribed or printed on recto; some photographs have Cosme's name blind stamped on recto.
• Some items bear handwritten notations on verso; some photographs bear inscriptions on recto. Some items are either mounted or matted; many photographs are mounted back to back and were once pages for movie publicity photo albums. Some items are duplicates.
• Collection contains work by Narcy Studios, Angelo, Armando Moreno, Magana and O. Salas, among others.

Biography (note)

• Eusebia Adriana Cosme y Almanza, diseuse and actress, was born in Santiago de Cuba around 1911.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Eusebia Cosme Papers, 1927-1973.

Call Number

Sc Photo Eusebia Cosme Collection

OCLC

NYPG98-F956

Author

Cosme, Eusebia.

Title

Eusebia Cosme photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

[193-?]-[197-]

Biography

Eusebia Adriana Cosme y Almanza, diseuse and actress, was born in Santiago de Cuba around 1911. Orphaned as a minor, Cosme was befriended by a Santiago family who took her to Havana where she received her formal education in music, piano theory, elocution and declamation. Her career as an interpreter of Afro-Antillian verse began in the early 1930s when she recited for the Spanish actor José González Marín, who later sponsored her appearance at Havana's Teatro Payet. Her recitals were interpretive performances that featured mostly the works of Hispanic poets who wrote "poesias negras" (poetry with a black theme). This included work by Cuban Félix B. Caignet, Puerto Rican Luis Palés Matos, and Venezuelan Andrés Eloy Blanco, as well as Americans Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar. In 1937, she left Cuba to become an international concert performer, travelling throughout South America, the Caribbean, Europe and the United States.

Cosme, upon leaving Cuba, settled in New York City where, during the 1940s, she had a radio program, "The Eusebia Cosme Show," on the Columbia Broadcasting System's "La Cadena de las Américas." In 1955 she began her acting career with a Mexican acting company and appeared in a few plays, including "El Derecho de Nacer" (The Right to be Born). She began her film acting career in 1965 in Sidney Lumet's "The Pawnbroker," and subsequently appeared in six Mexican movies, including the film version of "El Derecho de Nacer" (1966) and "Mama Dolores" (1970). By that time she had moved to Mexico, still gave concert performances abroad, composed music and did abstract painting. Cosme died in Miami, Florida, sometime in the mid-1970s.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Eusebia Cosme Papers, 1927-1973.

Local Note

Sc MG 46

Sc Micro R-3619

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Added Author

Moreno, Armando. Photographer

Salas, O. Photographer

Conrad, T. (Teresa), 1958- Photographer

Marti, J. Photographer

Angelo. Photographer

Jones, Lois Mailou.

Fotografo Ruvalcaba.

Magana (Mexico)

Narcy Studios (Havana, Cuba)

Added Title

El derecho de nacer.

Mama Dolores.

The pawnbroker.

Found In:

p1bc Cosme, Eusebia Adriana, 1911-1977? Eusebia Cosme papers, 1927-1973 (CstRLIN)NYPW89-A71

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Eusebia Cosme Collection