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

Hill, Ruby, as Della Green in St. Louis Woman , musical by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, 1946 July 2- Box 223

Slide numbers 575, 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591, 592, 593. Image set numbers. CCXXIXa and CCXXXa.

  1. Yale University -Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
  2. Carl Van Vechten Papers Relating to African American Arts and Letters, 1800-1971
  3. Photographs, 1932-1964
  4. Color Slides
  5. Portraits

Himes, Chester B., 1946-1964 Box 13, Folder 324-330

Includes carbon copies of letters and CVV photographic postcards to Himes from CVV; original and carbon copies of letters to and/or from Jean Himes (1947); William Cole of Alfred A. Knopf (1947); Willard Motley (1947); Donald Friede of the World Publishing Company (1954-1955); the Literary Clipping Service (1954); Walter Freeman the New American Library (1955-1956); Don Preston of Avon Books (1959-1960); Sheilah Hillman of Gold Medal Books (1959); Joseph Hunter and Kristin Hunter (1960); Marianne Greenwood (1962-1963); Lurton Blassingame (1964); typed letter signed by Mary M. Jones to "Estelle" (1945) enclosed with letter from Himes to CVV (1953); cancelled check to Himes from CVV (1957)

  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