(MUSIC--CALLOWAY, CAB). VAN VECHTEN, CARL. 17 gelatin silver print photographs of Cab Calloway. Each approximately 9 x 6-3/4 inches; each bear Van Vechten's notes and date in red on the reverse. [New York], 12 January 1933
A variety of poses in Carl Van Vechten's typically strange manner, some with a background of wallpaper that has as its design "Repeal 18th Amendment," referring to Prohibition. Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), was a white intellectual, art critic, writer, and photographer who attached himself to the Harlem Renaissance, and its figures.
