Birthday party at the Cotton Club, New York City, 1930s

Item Overview
- Title
- Birthday party at the Cotton Club, New York City, 1930s
- Photographer
- Sissle, Ethel
- Date Created
- [1930s?]
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Notes
- Summary
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Clarence Robinson was a choreographer associated with the Cotton Club.
Ethel Sissle (1915-1984) was maried to the band leader Noble Sissle, and later to Walter L. Gordon, Jr. - Description
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All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Photograph of a birthday party at the Cotton Club in New York. Clarence Robinson is third from the left; man second from the left was identified as a gangster and the guest of honor. The other individuals in the photograph are unidentified. Photograph is believed to have been taken by Ethel (Sissle) Gordon, although the woman cutting the cake is possibly Ethel. - Caption
- Handwritten caption: "Birthday Party, Cotton Club"
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
- Black-and-white photographs
- Subjects
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Culture
Youth - Subject topic
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Chorus girls
Choreographers--New York (State)--New York
Nightclubs--New York (State)--New York
Parties--California--Los Angeles - Names
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Robinson, Clarence
Cotton Club - Location
- New York (State)--New York
- Longitude
- 40.8190364
- Latitude
- -73.936972
- Resource type
- still image
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local identifier
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YRLSC_gordonphotos_0032
Collection 1867 Box 1 Folder 1 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025p203
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted