About This Item


  • TitleCab Calloway
  • Call NumberPORT_0169
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryImage represented is one of a related set (PORT 0170), some of which may also be described in this new record; Two studio portraits of famous American jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway.
  • Date1944, 1950
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description2 photographic prints : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsphotographsportraits
  • NoteDate stamped on versos: 0169: Sep[t] 1, 1944; 0170: Jul[y] 18, 1950. Letterhead on verso of copy 1, and stamped below image on recto of copy 2, "Cab Calloway, Inc." Title from typed caption on verso of 0169.
  • CreatorCab Calloway, Inc.
  • SubjectCalloway, Cab, 1907-1994 ; African American conductors -- United States ; African American singers -- United States ; Conductors (Music) -- United States ; Singers -- United States
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Place[Location unknown]
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.