Gladys Bentley: America's Greatest Sepia Player -- The Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs

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Object Details

Date: 1946 - 1949

Photograph by: Unidentified
Printed by: Unidentified
Distributed by: Harry Walker Agency, American, founded 1946
Subject of: Gladys Bentley, American, 1907 - 1960

Description: Black and white photographic postcard of the singer and musician Gladys Bentley dressed in a men's white tuxedo and white top hat, holding a cane at her side tucked under her arm. The phrase: "America's Greatest Sepia Player" is printed down the left side of the postcard and the phrase: "The Brown Bomber of Sophisticated Songs" is printed down the right side of the postcard.

Topic: African American; Blues (Music); Entertainers; Instrumentalists (Musicians); Photography; Singers (Musicians)

See more items in: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
Classification: Photographs and Still Images
Movement: Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement)

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Object number: 2011.57.25.1

Type: gelatin silver prints; portraits; photographic postcards

Restrictions & Rights: Public domain; Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.

Medium: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper, with ink on cardboard
Dimensions: H x W x D: 5 1/4 x 3 3/8 in. (13.3 x 8.6 cm)

Metadata Usage: CC0

GUID: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5b0abe01f-8fb7-49a6-b499-8099d4b7408b

Record ID: nmaahc_2011.57.25.1