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Start Over Collection Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971

1917-1965 Box 11, Folder 284-286

Includes cartoon drawings (1926); typescript carbon of letter from Gordon to John Ringling with typed note to CVV (1932); typescript letter from Erin Janzig to CVV (1935); printed invitation to party for Sam Manning and His Rhythm Commandos (1942); telegram from Wright Aeronautical Corporation to CVV requesting a character reference for Gordon (1943); typescript comparing excerpts of Gordon's Daonda with Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath(1946); business card for Gordon Games, Inc. (undated)

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971
  3. Correspondence, 1914-1971
  4. A-Z Correspondence
  5. Gordon, Taylor

1924-1934 Box 48, Folder 904-907

Includes original and carbon copies of letters to and/or from the Victor Talking Machine Company regarding Paul Robeson recordings (1925); Henry Allen Moe of the Guggenheim Foundation (1926); Hale Woodruff (1927, 1930); Mary W. Ovington (1927); and Hunter Stagg to James Weldon Johnson (1934); and letters regarding the Sabbath Glee Club (1924)

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971
  3. Correspondence, 1914-1971
  4. A-Z Correspondence
  5. White, Walter

1925-1936 Box 17, Folder 373-380

Includes typescript carbon review by Alain Locke of The Weary Blues enclosed with Hughes's letter of 1926 January 23; cancelled checks from CVV; postcard from Hughes, Fort Valley, Georgia, to CVV co-signed by Zora Neale Hurston, 1927 August 17; typescript carbon copy of contract between Hughes and Prentiss Taylor establishing The Golden Stair Press enclosed with Hughes's letter of 1931 September 8; "The Town of Scottsboro" typescript with autograph note to CVV dated 1932 January 2; typed letter, signed, from Arnold Gingrich, of Esquire magazine to Mark Lutz, dated 1934 January 4

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971
  3. Correspondence, 1914-1971
  4. A-Z Correspondence
  5. Hughes, Langston

1925-1960 Box 28, Folder 499-506

Includes typed transcript of letter, carbon copy, to Johnson from Augusta Savage (1939), and typed letter, carbon, from CVV to Johnson in response; photograph of four unidentified young women enclosed with Johnson's letter to CVV, 1947 August 23

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971
  3. Correspondence, 1914-1971
  4. A-Z Correspondence
  5. Johnson, Grace Nail