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

Wadleigh High School (New York, N.Y.). James Bowers Peterson Memorial Collection of Photographs of Celebrated Negroes by Carl Van Vechten, 1944-1951 Box 47, Folder 870-874

Includes correspondence between CVV and Dorothy Peterson (a teacher at Wadleigh High School), regarding the Jerome Bowers Peterson Memorial Collection of Photograph of Celebrated Negroes by Carl Van Vechten; correspondence between Peterson, school administrators and others including Harold Jackman, Zora Neale Hurston, Aaron Douglas, William C. Handy, and others; typescript mimeograph copy of "American Negro Exhibit" at Syracuse University Library (1945); typescript carbon list of invitees to exhibit of photographs at Wadleigh High School (1948); typescript carbon lists of photographs within the Peterson Collection (1951, 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