Esvan Mosby dancing with female partner, Los Angeles, 1940s
Item Overview
- Title
- Esvan Mosby dancing with female partner, Los Angeles, 1940s
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Collection
- Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Notes
- Summary
- Esvan Mosby was a well-known African American dancer who danced at New York's Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater in the 1930s and 1940s. He also owned several nightclubs on Central Avenue in Los Angeles after World War II, and was sometimes called the "Mayor of Central Avenue." He died in 1986.
- Description
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Backside of the photograph mentions the name Richard Tucker (tenor, Metropolitan Opera House?) and the address 26 Lime St., Boston.
All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
Esvan Mosby and an unidentified African American woman in a dance performance.
Physical Description
- Extent
- 1 photograph : b&w
Keywords
- Genre
- Black-and-white photographs
- Names
- Mosby, Esvan
- Location
- California--Los Angeles
- Resource type
- still image
- Subjects
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Entertainment
Lifestyle
People - African American dancers
Find This Item
- Repository
- University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections
- Local Identifier
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YRLSC_gordonphotos_1001
Collection 1867 Box 6 Folder 4
1001 - ARK
- ark:/21198/zz0025pxrj
- Manifest url
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Access Condition
- Rights statement
- copyrighted