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Description: Carl Van Vechten began donating materials from his archives to the Library in 1941 and continued over two decades. In addition to photographs, he gave printed works and manuscripts, including substantially complete editions of books he inscribed, annotated, or revised, along with typescripts, manuscripts, notes, scrapbooks, portraits, and other material. As Sam P. Williams noted in his 1975 Guide to the Research Collections of The New York Public Library, this "unusually comprehensive collection makes it possible to trace the work of this distinguished author from rough notes through manuscripts, typescripts, and proofs, to printed volumes."
Names: Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 (Creator); Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 (Photographer)
Library locations: Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature; Shelf locator: Berg Coll MSS Van Vechten
Genres: Photographs; Portraits
Notes: Biographical/historical: Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) was a writer, promoter of African-American artists during the Harlem Renaissance, patron of the arts, and photographer.; Content: Related resources: Byrd, Rudolph P., ed. Generations in Black and White: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection (c1993). Davis, Keith F. The Passionate Observer: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten (c1993). Kellner, Bruce. A Bibliography of the Work of Carl Van Vechten (1980). _____ . Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades (c1968). _____ . A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content with the Example (1988). Kishimoto, Hisao. Carl Van Vechten: The Man and His Role in the Harlem Renaissance (1983). Knapp, Bettina Liebowitz. Gertrude Stein (1990). Kuhl, Nancy. Extravagant Crowd: Carl van Vechten's Portraits of Women (2003). Mauriber, Saul, comp. Portraits, the Photography of Carl Van Vechten (c1978). NYPL, Berg Collection. Carl Van Vechten collection of papers, 1922-1964. ______. Manuscripts and Archives Division. Carl Van Vechten papers, 1833-1965, bulk (1920-1940). Souhami, Diana. Gertrude and Alice (1991). Watson, Steven. Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism (c1998). Wineapple, Brenda. Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein (c1996).
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: Call number: Berg Coll MSS Van Vechten; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): df2a8240-1bbe-013d-fe9a-0242ac110004