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TITLE: Chicago, Illinois. Good Sheperd Community Center. Mr. Langston Hughes at a rehearsal at of
his new play
CALL NUMBER: LC-USW3- 000697-D [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USW3-000697-D (b&w film neg.)
MEDIUM: 1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches or smaller.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1942 Apr.
CREATOR:
Delano, Jack, photographer.
NOTES:
Title and other information from caption card.
LOT 0053 (Location of corresponding print.)
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division;
1944.
Film copy on SIS roll 1, frame 701.
SUBJECTS:
United States--Illinois--Cook County--Chicago.
FORMAT:
Safety film negatives.
PART OF: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of
Congress)
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from intermediary roll film) fsa 8d03175 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8d03175
CONTROL #: owi2001002986/PP
[Portrait of Duke Ellington, Junior Raglin, Tricky Sam Nanton(?), Juan Tizol, Barney Bigard,
Ben Webster, Otto Toby Hardwick(e), Harry Carney, Rex William Stewart, and Sonny Greer,
Howard Theater(?), Washington, D.C., between 1938 and 1948].
Gottlieb, William P. 1917- photographer.
NOTES
Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 127
Original negative not served.
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SUBJECTS
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Raglin, Junior, 1917-1955
Nanton, Tricky Sam(?), 1904-1946
Tizol, Juan, 1900-1984
Bigard, Barney
Webster, Ben
Hardwick(e), Otto [Toby]
Carney, Harry
Stewart, Rex William, 1907-1967
Greer, Sonny
Duke Ellington Orchestra
Jazz musicians--1930-1950.
Big bands--1930-1950.
Composers--1930-1950.
Conductors (Music)--1930-1950.
Pianists--1930-1950.
Portrait photographs--1930-1950.
Group portraits--1930-1950.
Film negatives--1930-1950.
MEDIUM
1 negative : b&w ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
CALL NUMBER
LC-GLB13- 0247 <p&p>
</p&p>
REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-GLB13-0247 DLC (b&w film neg.)
PART OF
William P. Gottlieb Collection
REPOSITORY
negative Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington D.C. 20540 USA
reference print Library of Congress Music Division Washington D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
(negative) gottlieb 02471 urn:hdl:loc.music/gottlieb.02471 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.02471
Music and Music Publishing in the 1940s
Langston Hughes's first published poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," appeared in the June 1921 issue of the
NAACP magazine, The Crisis. Since that time it has been set to music repeatedly by African American
composers seeking a worthy poem for an extended art song. The best known of these settings is this one by
Chicago composer Margaret Bonds, published in 1942 by the Handy Brothers Music Company. Run by W. C.
Handy, that company used the money made by "The St. Louis Blues" and other early Handy blues songs to
finance the publication of classical music by a generation of African American composers, including J.
Rosamond Johnson, Eubie Blake, Noah Francis Ryder, and Harry Lawrence Freeman.
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Words by Langston Hughes and Margaret Bonds.
New York: Handy Brothers Music Company, Inc., 1942.
Sheet music.
Music Division. (8-1)
Courtesy of the Handy Brothers Music Company, Ed Sullivan Theater Building, 1697 Broadway New York, NY 10019
Langston Hughes Requests Loan for Tuition
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
to Walter White, October 29, 1925
Typescript letter
Manuscript Division
Gift of the NAACP, 1964 (181D.3a)
Walter White (1893-1955)
to Langston Hughes, December 15, 1925
Typescript letter
Manuscript Division
Gift of the NAACP, 1964 (181D.3b)
Walter White, the NAACP's Assistant Secretary and himself an aspiring novelist, worked tirelessly to
promote the careers of Harlem Renaissance writers, artists, and performers. Poet Langston Hughes
was employed as a busboy at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., when he wrote this letter
to White requesting a loan from the NAACP to pay his college tuition. Hughes also reported on the
progress of The Weary Blues and his new autobiography, Scarlet Flowers... ." In his reply letter White
retorted that the latter "sounds like Louisa M. Alcott." Hughes agreed and eventually published his
autobiography under the title The Big Sea (1940).
Harlem Renaissance--The Quest for Artistic Freedom
Langston Hughes.
"Ballad of Booker T."
Poem, second and final drafts, 1941.
Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection. Manuscript Division. (7-8)
Courtesy of Harold Ober Associates, New York, NY.
During the 1920s African American art and literature gained recognition as a significant component of
world culture. Numerous people of color from the South and the Caribbean moved to Harlem in New
York City, where the blending of cultures helped foster a flowering of the arts. Such a prodigious
amount of poetry, novels, other literary writing, music, and art was produced during the era between
the world wars that it is now known as the Harlem Renaissance.
Langston Hughes was one of the foremost and versatile writers of this talented group. Although
Hughes was quite critical of Booker T. Washington's accommodationist philosophy, this poem also
evinces his understanding of the circumstances under which Washing