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Show business is prominent in Baron Adolph de Meyer's atmospheric portraits of entertainer (and later spy) Josephine Baker and Carl Van Vechten’s Bessie Smith, empress of the blues, resplendent behind ...

One way to get Negroes to visit white schools and vice versa is to tempt them. Novelist Carl Van Vechten (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Peter Whiffle) has done just that with a scheme ...

Many of Harlem Renaissance's finest came to A'Lelia's parties, including Langtson Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Carl Van Vechten. Hughes called her "the joy goddess of Harlem's 1920s," according to NPR.

Many photos of Nora Holt were taken by iconic photographer Carl Van Vechten, who captured the essence of the Harlem Renaissance during its heyday.

Cuney also kept his distance from the Harlem Renaissance patron and publicist Carl Van Vechten, a white man who connected Black writers with opportunities but whose affection for Black culture ...

What he found were photos taken by Carl Van Vechten. "He's one of the primary patrons of the Harlem Renaissance," explains Norwood. "He also was a photographer.

Vechten, a White man who was reputed as a writer and a vocal advocate for the Harlem Renaissance, the African American cultural revival, was, in fact, only an amateur photographer.

Alicia Henry is relaxed inside the Carl Van Vechten Gallery. She is relaxed in most places, but especially here — the gallery, named after the photographer and Harlem Renaissance patron, is the ...

Zora Neale Hurston was friends with Carl Van Vechten, famed photographer during the Harlem Renaissance, who took this portrait on Nov. 9, 1934.

It’s been 75-plus years since the writer, theater critic and photographer Van Vechten established the Yale-based collection with Grace Nail Johnson as a memorial to her husband.