Research Catalog

Title

Horne family research photograph collection [graphic].

Author

Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937-

Publication

[1887?]-1987.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
• Seymour, Maurice.
• Smith, Frank G.
• Swope, Martha.
• Schiedt, Duncan.
• Ivry, Joy.
• Harris Studio (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Found In

p1bc Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937- Horne family research collection, 1777-1989 (CstRLIN)NYPW086000047-A

Description

• 339 items (1 lin. ft., 4 boxes); 36 x 28 cm. and smaller.
• 67 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-col. ;
• 31 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 45 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w, some hand-col. ;
• 59 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 86 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 17 photographic prints : col. ;
• 6 photographic postcards : b&w ;
• 5 cabinet cards : b&w ;
• 6 transparencies : col. ;
• 1 tintype ;
• 1 keepsake : halftone photomechanical and silver gelatin, b&w ;
• 3 clippings : halftone photomechanical, b&w ;
• 10 negatives : b&w ;
• 1 slide : col. ;
• 1 notecard : col. ;

Summary

The Horne Family Research Photograph Collection depicts some aspects of the personal lives of the Horn (later spelled Horne) and Calhoun families, as well as the personal life and professional career of entertainer Lena Horne, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s.

Subject

• Horne, Lena
• Horne, Frank
• Horne, Edwin F., 1893-
• Horne, Edna
• Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937-
• Hayton, Lennie, 1908-1971
• Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016
• Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977
• Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023
• Eikerenkoetter, Frederick
• Freed, Arthur, 1894-1973
• Gaye, Marvin
• Henderson, Luther, 1919-2003
• Ingram, Rex, 1895-1969
• Janssen, David
• Jones, Jack, 1938-
• Jones, Quincy, 1933-
• Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963
• Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945
• Legrand, Michel, 1932-2019
• Louis, Joe, 1914-1981
• McDaniel, Hattie, 1895-1952
• Minnelli, Vincente
• Moreland, Mantan
• Nicholas, Fayard
• Price, Leontyne
• Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
• Smith, O. C., 1936-
• Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
• White, Walter, 1893-1955
• Horn family
• African American families
• African American entertainers
• African American singers
• African Americans in the performing arts
• Entertainers > United States
• African American motion picture actors and actresses
• Composers > United States
• African Americans > Social life > 1880-1989
• United States > Officials and employees

Genre/Form

• Portrait photographs – 1880-1989.
• Group portraits – 1880-1989.
• Snapshots – 1920-1949.
• Publicity photographs – 1940-1989.
• Photographic postcards.
• Film stills – 1940-1949.
• Television stills – 1960-1969.
• Keepsakes.
• Gelatin silver prints – 1880-1989.
• Dye coupler pints – 1940-1989.
• Dye diffusion transfer prints – 1980-1989.
• Clippings – 1930-1949.
• Dye coupler transparencies – 1940-1959.
• Film negatives – 1940-1989.
• Tintypes – 1930-1939.
• Cabinet photographs – 1880-1899.
• Panoramic photographs – 1940-1949.
• Reproductions – 1980-1989.
• Hand-coloring.

Note

• Title devised by cataloger.
• Some photographs have photographer's or photographic studio's handstamp on verso; some photographs have photographer's or studio's blind stamp on recto; some photographs are signed by photographer on recto; many mounted photographs and cabinet cards have photographer's or photographic studio's name printed on either verso or recto.
• Some photographs bear either handwritten or printed captions on either verso or recto; some publicity stills have printed or typewritten captions attached to verso; some items are inscribed.
• Many snapshot images were cut from scrapbooks and may include partial images on the verso of full images. Some photographs are split down face of print or have weakened edges. One item is a souvenir matted photograph with folding panels made from photomechanical prints. Some items are reproductions used for publication purposes.
• Collection contains work by Carl Van Vechten, Maurice Seymour, Frank G. Smith, Martha Swope, Harris Studio, and others.

Terms of Use (note)

• Reproduction restricted at donor's request.

Biography (note)

• The Calhoun family began with Sinai Reynolds, an educated Georgia slave who purchased freedom for most of her family in 1859.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Horne Family Research Collection, 1777-1989.

Publications (note)

• The Hornes: an American family / Gail Lumet Buckley. -- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Call Number

Sc Photo Horne Family Research Collection

OCLC

NYPG98-F609

Author

Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937- Compiler

Title

Horne family research photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

[1887?]-1987.

Terms Of Use

Reproduction restricted at donor's request.

Biography

The Calhoun family began with Sinai Reynolds, an educated Georgia slave who purchased freedom for most of her family in 1859. Her eldest child, Nellie (born ca. 1810), had been sold ten years earlier to the Calhoun family of Coweta County, Georgia. Nellie's son, Moses Calhoun (born 1829), freed after the Civil War, would rise to become a prominent member of Atlanta's black middle-class (ca. 1870s-1880s). His daughters, Cora and Lena (born in 1865 and 1869, respectively), were belles of the black South, with Cora graduating from Atlanta University in 1881, and Lena attending Nashville's Fisk University.

In 1887, Cora Calhoun married Edwin Horn (born 1859), the son of a white river captain and a Native-American mother. Horn, a former teacher, journalist and active member of the Republican Party in Indiana before moving to Atlanta, would become a successful journalist and business entrepreneuer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1896, the Hornes (the "e" was added about this time) moved to New York to escape Southern "Jim Crow" laws and eventually settled in Brooklyn. They had four sons, most notably Frank Horne (1899-1974), an optometrist, writer, a Federal and New York City administrator, and a member of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet"; and Edwin Horne, Jr. (1893-1970), known as Teddy, a sportsman, bon vivant, and, with wife Edna Scottron Horne, one of the parents of singer/actress Lena Horne, born in 1917.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Horne Family Research Collection, 1777-1989.

Publications

The Hornes: an American family / Gail Lumet Buckley. -- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Local Note

Sc MG 327

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Added Author

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Photographer

Seymour, Maurice. Photographer

Smith, Frank G. Photographer

Swope, Martha. Photographer

Schiedt, Duncan. Photographer

Ivry, Joy. Photographer

Harris Studio (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Found In:

p1bc Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937- Horne family research collection, 1777-1989 (CstRLIN)NYPW086000047-A

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Horne Family Research Collection