About This Item

  • Call NumberPORT_0171
  • TitleCab Calloway
  • SummaryTwo studio portrait views of famous American jazz singer and bandleader Cab Calloway. Image on left shows him conducting. Image on right is a head shot. Typed caption: "Cab Calloway, King of Hi De Ho, brings his cabbies into the New York Strand Theatre for a three-week engagement beginning Friday, July 4th."
  • Date1941
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white ; 10 x 8 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsphotographsportraits
  • NoteDate stamped on verso: Jul[y] 8, 1941. Grease pencil cropping marks; retouched. Title from typed caption on verso.
  • CreatorMills Artists, Inc.
  • SubjectCalloway, Cab, 1907-1994 ; African American conductors -- United States ; African American singers -- United States ; Conductors (Music) -- United States ; Singers -- United States
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • FolderFolder: Portraits: Calloway, Cab