Genre: group portraits / Names: Still, William Grant, 1895-1978 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Cast photograph of approximately 100 people in "black face" and wearing ethnic costumes. Center front is a man covered in black makeup, no shirt, wearing a feather headgear. Men on the left have large, painted oval shields. The group is on a stage in front of painted backdrop with tropical foliage including palm trees, and there is a thatched-roof building on the left.
Date:: [circa 1949]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: William Grant Still played in the pit orchestra for Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's musical, Shuffle Along. The appearance of Blake and Still in this photograph, and Blake's name on the dedication photograph dedication, indicates that this is the pit band for that musical.
Date:: [circa 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Harry Lawrence Freeman was a composer, conductor, impresario and teacher. He was the first African-American to write an opera (Epthalia, 1891) that was successfully produced. Freeman founded the Freeman School of Music and the Freeman School of Grand Opera, as well as several short-lived opera companies which gave first performances of his own compositions. He was married to actress and singer, Charlotte (Carlotta) Louise Thomas.
Date:: [circa 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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