May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 346

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(MUSIC.) Group of promotional photographs of musicians and entertainers including Cab Calloway and Harry Belafonte. 17 photographs, each about 10 x 8 inches; moderate wear, a few retouched, a couple with substantial creases, various press markings and stamps on verso, some of them from the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Vp, 1940-67 and undated

Additional Details

Highlights include 3 portraits of Cab Calloway (1940-1955), Harry Belafonte in 1953 and 1958, and Johnny Mathis in 1957. Other subjects are Valerie Carr, Mae Brown, Tamara Hayes, Harold Nicholas, Delores Martin, George Dewey Washington, Maxine Sullivan, Lurlean Hunter, Laura Hunter, the Karaleers of Karamu House in Cleveland, and Don Redman.