Signed: Robert Curtis, XVI . MM . 17 April 19 . 1955 (in ink on back); PHOTOGRAPH BY CARL VAN VECHTEN, 146 CENTRAL PARK WEST, CANNOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION (ink stamp on back)
Signed: Leontyne Price as Bes, Porgy & Bess, XVII KK 20, May 19, 53 (in ink on back); PHOTOGRAPH BY CARL VAN VECHTEN, 101 CENTRAL PARK WEST, CANNOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION (ink stamp on back)
Signed: ROSE COVARRUBIAS, 28 FEB 1932, V (in pencil on back); PHOTOGRAPH BY CARL VAN VECHTEN, 146 CENTRAL PARK WEST, CANNOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION (ink stamp on back)
Signed: Roy Atkins (in black ink on back); Roy Atkins (in pencil on back); Jan. 19. 1934, I u ji12 (in red ink on back); PHOTOGRAPH BY CARL VAN VECHTEN, CANNOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION (ink stamp on back)
Signed: Cab Calloway, XIX b.28 (in ink on back); PHOTOGRAPH BY CARL VAN VECHTEN, 101 CENTRAL PARK WEST, CANNOT BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT PERMISSION (ink stamp on back)
Size: H: 9 15/16” x W: 8”
Cabell “Cab” Calloway III (1907-1994) was a famous African American jazz singer and bandleader. Calloway was a master of energetic scat singing and led one of the United States’ most popular African American big bands from the start of the 1930s through the late 1940s.
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