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(Clockwise from Left: Pearl Bailey, Cab Calloway, Joyce Bryant, Ella
Fitzgerald, Joe Louis, Harry Belafonte,
Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B. DuBois)
From 1946-1956, the
celebrated photographer Carl Van Vechten mailed thousands of portrait postcards to his friend, Karl
Priebe, a Wisconsin artist whose personal papers reside in Marquette University’s Department
of Special Collections & Archives.
To commemorate the centennial of the founding of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Marquette is pleased to publish over 700 postcards depicting
notable African Americans from the first half of the twentieth century.
Photographed between 1932 and 1956, Van Vechten’s subjects included authors,
artists, entertainers, and intellectuals, many of whom had been associated with the Harlem
Renaissance. |
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