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Creative Americans: Portraits by Van Vechten, 1932-1964,
features portraits of famous literary figures, artists, and celebrities,
many of whom were prominent in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s
and 1930s. The collection includes portraits of Salvador Dali, William
Faulkner, Dizzy Gillespie, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston,
Mahalia Jackson, Leontyne Price, Man Ray, and hundreds of others.
These historical era(s) are best represented
in the collection, although they may not be all-encompassing.
The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
Postwar United States, 1945-early 1970s
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Architecture
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FSA/OWI Photographs,
1935-1945
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Deal Stage: Federal Theater Project, 1935-1939
Photographs
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Recommended additional sources of information.
African
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Read More About It! - A bibliography
Specific guidance for searching this collection.
The photographs in this collection are indexed by the name of the
person photographed. For a list of people pictured in the collection,
go to the Creative Americans: Portraits by Van Vechten
Subject
Index.
For help searching the collection for photographs of writers,
artists, musicians, and other occupations, use the Creative
Americans: Portraits by Van Vechten Occupational
Index.
For help with search words, go to the Synonym
List.
For help with search strategies, see Finding
Items in American Memory.
No special viewers are needed to see most of the photographs in
this collection. To see high-resolution archival quality images,
you may need a special viewer. For help with viewers, go to American
Memory Viewer Information.
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