Ada "Bricktop" Smith photograph collection
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Abstract
The Ada "Bricktop" Smith Photograph Collection documents some aspects of her personal life and professional career, from the 1890s to the early 1980s.The collection includes studio and candid portraits of Bricktop, some members of her family and friends; views of the activities of individuals who patronized or performed at her nightclubs in Paris and Rome; and views of Bricktop during her later years after her return to the United States. The collection has no images of her Paris club, The Music Box, from the mid-1920s, or of her American and Mexican clubs from the 1940s.
Dates / Origin
Date issued: 1890
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Ada "Bricktop" Smith Collection