- Photograph by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Calloway, Cab, American, 1907 - 1994
- Date
- 1930s - 1950s; printed later
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Image): 8 7/8 × 7 5/16 in. (22.6 × 18.5 cm)
- H x W (Sheet): 10 × 8 1/8 in. (25.4 × 20.6 cm)
- Description
- A black and white photograph of Cab Calloway wearing a light colored tuxedo with tail coat. Calloway is posed standing in front of a spotlight, his knees bent, his arms held out from his sides with index fingers pointing, and his head turned slightly to his proper right, smiling widely. The spotlight casts a bright arc against the dark background and Calloway's shadow is behind and to the left of him. A photographer's signature is in the bottom left part of the image: [C (illegible) / la Habana]. At the bottom right corner of the print is printed: [MOSS PHOTO, N.Y.].
- Place captured
- Havana, Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
- Place printed
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- 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
- 2013.237.18
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
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