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Portraits of black jazz musicians inscribed to Ruth King Bordner, ca. 1928-1940.

Title: Portraits of black jazz musicians inscribed to Ruth King Bordner, ca. 1928-1940.

9 signed photographs of various black composers and performers, most from the 1920's and 1930's. All are inscribed to Ruth King Bordner (or Ruth King), who was evidently an agent for black performers and revues in Cleveland. The musicians are Eubie Blake, W.C. Handy, Noble Sissle, Spencer Williams, Billy Banks, Adelaide Hall, Aida Ward, and Ethel Waters. Accompanied by 4 unsigned photographs of Billy Banks, the Clarence Williams Trio, "Baby" (Laura Badge) Hines, and Ruth King.

ArchivalResource: 0.1 cubic ft. (13 photographs).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86164281 View

Milnes, Harriett. Duke Ellington oral history, 1939-1987 (inclusive).

Title: Duke Ellington oral history, 1939-1987 (inclusive).

The Duke Ellington Oral History is comprised of ninety-two interviews with and about Ellington, one of America's greatest composers. Included among the interviewees are musicians, family members, friends, and colleagues. A series on Billy Strayhorn, Ellington's longtime close collaborator, is also included.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

https://orbis.library.yale.edu/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=5991235 View

Hall, Adelaide. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1955.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1955.

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63558364 View

Robert Benney research materials, 1926-1978

Title: Robert Benney research materials 1926-1978

The Robert Benney research materials include photographs, clippings, posters, playbills, and ephemera relating to his career as a portraitist of stage and screen personalities. The bulk of the material spans 1926 to 1947, and consists of photographs, and clippings of Benney's work depicting New York stage performers in their roles. Many photographs and clippings depict entire stage scenes, and, in addition to stage actors, there are photographs and clippings of musicians, dancers, comics, and radio personalities, and a small number of items relating to films of the period.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/the/21610 View