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[Portrait of Shirley Graham] – Vintage Photo Print

[Portrait of Shirley Graham], 1946 July 18. — historic photograph
[Portrait of Shirley Graham], 1946 July 18.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Shirley Graham, a writer and composer who later married W. E. B. Du Bois in 1951, appears in this gelatin silver print dated July 18, 1946. The photographer, Carl Van Vechten, made a large body of portraits of writers, performers and artists in the mid-twentieth century, and his collection at the Library of Congress keeps this image under its original Van Vechten number. Graham had already written an opera, *Tom-Tom*, and biographies, including one of Frederick Douglass, so the portrait captures a figure active in American music and letters before her marriage linked her to one of the country's best-known intellectuals.

Created / published1946 July 18.
Medium1 photographic print : gelatin silver.
GenrePortrait photographs.
NotesTitle derived from information on verso of photographic print. Van Vechten number: VIII CC 17. Also available on microfilm. Gift; Carl Van Vechten Estate; 1966. Forms part of: Portrait photographs of celebrities, a LOT which in turn forms part of the Carl Van Vechten photograph collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsDu Bois, Shirley Graham,--1896-1977.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,260 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-193669

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