Carl Van Vechten Photographs Collection

(GC123)
 

Item Listing
by
Vicki Principi
 

Graphic Arts Collection
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections
Princeton University Library
2004



Contains gelatin silver portraits of famous actors, artists, authors, athletes, and musicians by Carl Van  Vechten.

Box 1 contents:
Anderson, Marian, Ave Maria; July 17, 1947
Armstrong, Henry; July 15, 1937
Bricktop: Paris; June 22, 1934
Calloway, Cab; Jan. 12, 1933
Capote, Truman; March 30, 1948
Christ at Montserrat; June 15, 1935
Cohen, George M.; Oct. 23, 1933
Dreiser, Theodore; Nov. 8, 1933
Dreiser, Theodore; Nov. 8, 1933
DuChamp, Marcel; Nov. 17, 1933
Ficke, Arthur Davison; Feb. 26, 1940
Fitzgerald, F. Scott; 1937
Gershwin, George; March 28, 1933
Godowsky, Leopold; May 9, 1935

Box 2 contents:
Hindu musicians, Jan. 5, 1933
Jeffers, Robinson; July 9, 1937
Kaye, Nora [Hugh Laing, Anthony Tudor] in Anthony Tudor's ballet, Dark Elegies; May 5, 1943
Laing, Hugh in Anthony Tudor's ballet Dim Lustre; Oct. 27, 1944
Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Nov. 8, 1934
Louis, Joe; Greenwood Lake, Sep. 15, 1941
Marinoff, Fania; April 18, 1932
Markova, Alicia as Giselle, Act II; Oct. 6. 1940
Matisse, Henri; May 30, 1933
Millay, Edna St. Vincent; Jan. 14, 1933
Miro, Juan; Barcelona, June 13, 1935
Molnar, Ferenc; Feb. 15, 1941
One way; July 24, 1938
Orioli, Giuseppe; Florence, June 24, 1935

Box 3 contents:
Prohibition; June 25, 1938
Reed, Janet in Tallyho (Agnes de Mille's ballet); Oct. 27, 1944
Seldes, Marian and Timothy; July 18, 1939
Shemius, Louis M. Eil; May 18, 1937
St. Sebastian in America, July 18, 1940
Stein, Gertrude; June 12, 1934
Stieglitz, Alfred; April 17, 1935
Street in Seville; n.d.
Szabo, Sandor, wrestler: 'The Hungarian Adonis;' Jan 19, 1933
Taos Pueblo, July 15, 1933
Taylor, Deems; Dec. 6, 1932
The Albutera: Rice Farmer's Huts near Valencia, June 9, 1935
The Witch's House, Maine, July 27, 1936
Tunney, Gene; April 25, 1934
Twilight: Philip Langner & Michael Rohman, June 12, 1938
Werfel, Franz; Dec. 14, 1940
Woollcott, Alexander; Jan. 3, 1939



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