Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.
2. Seymour, Maurice.
3. Smith, Frank G.
4. Swope, Martha.
5. Schiedt, Duncan.
6. Ivry, Joy.
7. Harris Studio (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Found in

1. p1bc Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937- Horne family research collection, 1777-1989 (CstRLIN)NYPW086000047-A

Description

1. 339 items (1 lin. ft., 4 boxes); 36 x 28 cm. and smaller.

Summary

1. The Horne Family Research Photograph Collection depicts some aspects of the personal lives of the Horn (later spelled Horne) and Calhoun families, as well as the personal life and professional career of entertainer Lena Horne, from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s.

Subject

1. African American entertainers
2. Hand-coloring
3. Panoramic photographs > 1940-1949
4. Hayton, Lennie, 1908-1971
5. Horne, Edna
6. Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937-
7. Composers > United States
8. Reproductions > 1980-1989
9. Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
10. Dye diffusion transfer prints > 1980-1989
11. Keepsakes
12. Television stills > 1960-1969
13. Anderson, Eddie, 1905-1977
14. Moreland, Mantan
15. Horn family
16. Price, Leontyne
17. Janssen, David
18. Photographic postcards
19. Horne, Frank
20. Publicity photographs > 1940-1989
21. Cabinet photographs > 1880-1899
22. Jones, Jack, 1938-
23. African Americans in the performing arts
24. Film negatives > 1940-1989
25. African American motion picture actors and actresses
26. Henderson, Luther, 1919-2003
27. Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
28. Nicholas, Fayard
29. Portrait photographs > 1880-1989
30. African Americans > Social life > 1880-1989
31. Freed, Arthur, 1894-1973
32. McDaniel, Hattie, 1895-1952
33. Film stills > 1940-1949
34. Horne, Edwin F., 1893-
35. White, Walter, 1893-1955
36. Gelatin silver prints > 1880-1989
37. Dye coupler pints > 1940-1989
38. African American singers
39. Minnelli, Vincente
40. Jones, Quincy, 1933-
41. African American families
42. Ali, Muhammad, 1942-2016
43. Snapshots > 1920-1949
44. Horne, Lena
45. Kern, Jerome, 1885-1945
46. Tintypes > 1930-1939
47. Gaye, Marvin
48. Clippings > 1930-1949
49. Legrand, Michel, 1932-2019
50. Group portraits > 1880-1989
51. Entertainers > United States
52. Kennedy, John F (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
53. Eikerenkoetter, Frederick
54. Smith, O. C., 1936-
55. United States > Officials and employees
56. Belafonte, Harry, 1927-
57. Dye coupler transparencies > 1940-1959
58. Ingram, Rex, 1895-1969
59. Louis, Joe, 1914-1981

Genre/Form

1. Portrait photographs – 1880-1989.
2. Group portraits – 1880-1989.
3. Snapshots – 1920-1949.
4. Publicity photographs – 1940-1989.
5. Photographic postcards.
6. Film stills – 1940-1949.
7. Television stills – 1960-1969.
8. Keepsakes.
9. Gelatin silver prints – 1880-1989.
10. Dye coupler pints – 1940-1989.
11. Dye diffusion transfer prints – 1980-1989.
12. Clippings – 1930-1949.
13. Dye coupler transparencies – 1940-1959.
14. Film negatives – 1940-1989.
15. Tintypes – 1930-1939.
16. Cabinet photographs – 1880-1899.
17. Panoramic photographs – 1940-1949.
18. Reproductions – 1980-1989.
19. Hand-coloring.

Call number

1. Sc Photo Horne Family Research Collection

Note

1. Title devised by cataloger.
2. Some photographs have photographer's or photographic studio's handstamp on verso; some photographs have photographer's or studio's blind stamp on recto; some photographs are signed by photographer on recto; many mounted photographs and cabinet cards have photographer's or photographic studio's name printed on either verso or recto.
3. Some photographs bear either handwritten or printed captions on either verso or recto; some publicity stills have printed or typewritten captions attached to verso; some items are inscribed.
4. Many snapshot images were cut from scrapbooks and may include partial images on the verso of full images. Some photographs are split down face of print or have weakened edges. One item is a souvenir matted photograph with folding panels made from photomechanical prints. Some items are reproductions used for publication purposes.
5. Collection contains work by Carl Van Vechten, Maurice Seymour, Frank G. Smith, Martha Swope, Harris Studio, and others.

Terms of use (note)

1. Reproduction restricted at donor's request.

Biography (note)

1. The Calhoun family began with Sinai Reynolds, an educated Georgia slave who purchased freedom for most of her family in 1859.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of the Horne Family Research Collection, 1777-1989.

Publications (note)

1. The Hornes: an American family / Gail Lumet Buckley. -- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Author

1. Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937- Compiler

Title

1. Horne family research photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

1. [1887?]-1987.

Terms of use

1. Reproduction restricted at donor's request.

Biography

1. The Calhoun family began with Sinai Reynolds, an educated Georgia slave who purchased freedom for most of her family in 1859. Her eldest child, Nellie (born ca. 1810), had been sold ten years earlier to the Calhoun family of Coweta County, Georgia. Nellie's son, Moses Calhoun (born 1829), freed after the Civil War, would rise to become a prominent member of Atlanta's black middle-class (ca. 1870s-1880s). His daughters, Cora and Lena (born in 1865 and 1869, respectively), were belles of the black South, with Cora graduating from Atlanta University in 1881, and Lena attending Nashville's Fisk University.
2. In 1887, Cora Calhoun married Edwin Horn (born 1859), the son of a white river captain and a Native-American mother. Horn, a former teacher, journalist and active member of the Republican Party in Indiana before moving to Atlanta, would become a successful journalist and business entrepreneuer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1896, the Hornes (the "e" was added about this time) moved to New York to escape Southern "Jim Crow" laws and eventually settled in Brooklyn. They had four sons, most notably Frank Horne (1899-1974), an optometrist, writer, a Federal and New York City administrator, and a member of President Franklin Roosevelt's "Black Cabinet"; and Edwin Horne, Jr. (1893-1970), known as Teddy, a sportsman, bon vivant, and, with wife Edna Scottron Horne, one of the parents of singer/actress Lena Horne, born in 1917.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of the Horne Family Research Collection, 1777-1989.

Publications

1. The Hornes: an American family / Gail Lumet Buckley. -- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Local note

1. Sc MG 327

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Added author

1. Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. Photographer
2. Seymour, Maurice. Photographer
3. Smith, Frank G. Photographer
4. Swope, Martha. Photographer
5. Schiedt, Duncan. Photographer
6. Ivry, Joy. Photographer
7. Harris Studio (Pittsburgh, Pa.)

Found in:

1. p1bc Buckley, Gail Lumet, 1937- Horne family research collection, 1777-1989 (CstRLIN)NYPW086000047-A

Research call number

1. Sc Photo Horne Family Research Collection