Ethel Sissle's first boyfriend, New York, 1930s
Item Overview
- Title
- Ethel Sissle's first boyfriend, New York, 1930s
- Date Created
- 1930s?
- Date
- 1930/1939
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Notes
- Summary
- 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.
When Walter Gordon met Ethel Sissle she was popular in show business in New York. This is her first boyfriend, a frequenter of the Cotton Club (not as a patron).
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
-
portraits
Black-and-white photographs - Location
- New York (State)--New York
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
- People
- African Americans--New York (State)--New York
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
-
YRLSC_gordonphotos_0039
Collection 1867 Box 1 Folder 2 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025p27q
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted