Promotional photo of Cab Calloway and his Orchestra
- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Calloway, Cab, American, 1907 - 1994
- Date
- 1930s
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 8 9/16 × 7 1/2 in. (21.7 × 19.1 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 10 × 8 3/16 in. (25.4 × 20.8 cm)
- Description
- A black and white promotional photograph of Cab Calloway. Calloway is pictured in the center of the image, light by a round spotlight and casting a large shadow on the plain wall behind him. He wears a light colored, double breasted suit with dark colored bow tie and white pocket square. His arms are bent at the elbows and his arms raised chest high, palms facing down. A conductor's baton is in his proper right hand. At the bottom left of the image is the photographer's mark: [Bloom / Chicago]. Along the bottom of the photograph is printed on the left side: [CAB CALLOWAY / and his Cotton Club / Orchestra] and on the right side: [CAB CALLOWAY, INC. / 1619 BROADWAY / NEW YORK CITY]. There are no marks or inscriptions on the back.
- Place made
- New York City, New York County, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Movement
- Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement)
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- portraits
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Cabella Calloway Langsam
- Object number
- 2013.237.15
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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