About This Item


  • Call NumberPORT_0485
  • TitleLena Horne
  • SummaryPortrait of Brooklyn-born singer Lena Horne.
  • Date[195-?]
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 photographic print : black & white, gelatin silver ; 11 x 9 in.
  • Genregelatin silver printsphotographic printsportraits
  • NoteCaption: "Lena Horne (1917) As far back as 1943 Elsa Maxwell wrote in her column, 'The blues singer Lena Horne has Hollywood agog.' ... Lena Horne was born in Brooklyn and attended Girls High School in the borough until she was sixteen." Title from typed caption on verso.
  • SubjectHorne, Lena ; African American singers -- New York (State) -- New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Daily Eagle photographs
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • 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: Horne, Lena