Book party at the National Memorial Bookstore: Langston Hughes, Eartha Kitt, Henry Armstrong, Pauli Murray, Mr. Bowman, Ralph Cooper
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58300977
Item data
Title
Book party at the National Memorial Bookstore: Langston Hughes, Eartha Kitt, Henry Armstrong, Pauli Murray, Mr. Bowman, Ralph Cooper
Collection
Austin Hansen photograph collection
Series I: Personalities
Bowman, Lawson (or Henry L.)
Names
Hansen, Austin, 1910-1996 (Photographer)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1956-11-08
Place: Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Austin Hansen Collection
Subjects
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Kitt, Eartha
Murray, Pauli, 1910-1985
Cooper, Ralph, 1908-1992
Armstrong, Henry, 1912-1988
Genres
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 21 x 26 cm ; black and white
Abstract
A book signing party held at Lewis Michaux's National Memorial Bookstore, in Harlem, for authors (left to right) Langston Hughes, Eartha Kitt, Henry Armstrong and Pauli Murray, with Lawson Bowman and Ralph Cooper, held on November 8, 1956.
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Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b12017637
Archives ID: 533511
Archives EAD ID: 3393146
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 24240920-c639-0139-dd56-0242ac110003
Access
© The Estate of Austin Hansen.
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MLA format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Book party at the National Memorial Bookstore: Langston Hughes, Eartha Kitt, Henry Armstrong, Pauli Murray, Mr. Bowman, Ralph Cooper" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1956. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/24240920-c639-0139-dd56-0242ac110003
APA format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1956). Book party at the National Memorial Bookstore: Langston Hughes, Eartha Kitt, Henry Armstrong, Pauli Murray, Mr. Bowman, Ralph Cooper Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/24240920-c639-0139-dd56-0242ac110003
Chicago/Turabian Format
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Book party at the National Memorial Bookstore: Langston Hughes, Eartha Kitt, Henry Armstrong, Pauli Murray, Mr. Bowman, Ralph Cooper" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 6, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/24240920-c639-0139-dd56-0242ac110003
Wikipedia citation
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