Ellabelle Davis with pet cocker spaniel, "Aida"
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Description
Portrait of soprano Ellabelle Davis with pet cocker spaniel dog named "Aida." Printed on front: "Ellabelle Davis, soprano. National Concert and Artists Corporation, 711 Fifth Avenue, New York 22, N.Y." Label on back: "Pair of 'Aidas.' Her cocker spaniel pup named 'Aida,' for the role which she sang with the Opera Nacionl [sic] of Mexico City (as the first American Negro ever to have been starred by a major opera company of the world) looks on intently as Ellabelle Davis, noted soprano, works over one of the arias she will sing at the [blank] in [blank] on [blank]. Photo: Robert M. Lewis."
Details
- Creator:
- Lewis, Robert M.
- Resource ID:
- hk000603
- Subject:
- Davis, Ellabelle, 1907-1960
- African American women singers
- Cocker spaniels
- Photographic prints
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- 1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 in.
- Department:
- E. Azalia Hackley Collection
- Location:
- Biography--Davis, Ellabelle
- Copyright:
- Physical rights are retained by DPL. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.