About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Ada "Bricktop" Smith, owner of the club Bricktop's on Rue Pigalle, Paris, with Fats Waller and others

Ada "Bricktop" Smith, owner of the club Bricktop's on Rue Pigalle, Paris, with Fats Waller and others

More Details Cite This Item

58179528
300px
760px
All download options
Original Scan
Order Print

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

  • Scene from the Broadway production of the American Negro Theatre's "Anna Lucasta," featuring (left to right) Canada Lee, Hilda Simms, Alice Childress and Alvin Childress
  • Publicity photograph of poet, publisher and performance artist Assotto Saint, circa 1991
  • Portrait of Mrs. Frances Anne Rollin Whipper
  • Portrait of Black Woman Holding White Child
  • Banquet in honor of Charles D.B. King, Secretary of State and President-elect of Liberia, held at Anderson's Assembly Rooms, in New York City, on September 22, 1919. In attendance are bibliophile Arthur A. Schomburg, journalist John E. Bruce and writer Maritcha Lyons.
  • Saint John's Methodist Church Sexton, Peter Williams, 1801
  • Funeral procession for a Ku Klux Klan member, held in Cold Spring, Putnam County, New York, 1920s.
  • Elease Perkins (second from left) with other teachers at the Harlem Academy
  • W.C. Handy with his wife Irma Louise Logan, and Dizzy Gillespie and an unidentified man
  • Edna Thomas as Lady Macbeth
  • Farm workers studying corn crop
  • Boy with bowl
  • Portrait of a man wearing patterned bowtie
  • Portrait of a woman, Bahia, Brazil
  • Benguela/ Angola/ Congo/ Monjolo
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Ada "Bricktop" Smith photograph collection

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
II. Professional, 1910s-1970s

View as book

This Item

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Ada "Bricktop" Smith, owner of the club Bricktop's on Rue Pigalle, Paris, with Fats Waller and others
Names
Bricktop, 1894-1984 (Collector)
Driggs, Frank (Copyright holder)
Collection

Ada "Bricktop" Smith photograph collection

II. Professional, 1910s-1970s

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1932
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Ada "Bricktop" Smith Collection
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Ada "Bricktop" Smith Collection / Box 4
Topics
Clubs -- France -- Paris
African American business enterprises -- France -- Paris
Paris (France) -- Social life and customs
Waller, Fats, 1904-1943
Williams, Spencer, 1889-1965
Bricktop, 1894-1984
Genres
Photographs
Group portraits
Notes
Handwritten: Image bears inscription: To Grant Fiske, From Thomas "Fats" Waller with Best Wishes.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 21 x 26 cm ; black and white
Description
Ada "Bricktop" Smith (extreme right), with musician Fats Water (3rd from right), composer Spencer Williams (2nd from right) and members of Waller's band at Bricktop's club on Rue Pagalle, Paris, 1932.
Type of Resource
Still image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG98-F147
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b13633955
Photo Order: 62356
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5a8807c0-c549-0138-37e7-0faca6db1b30
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1894: Creator Born
  • 1932: Created
  • 1984: Creator Died
  • 2020: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

MLA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Ada "Bricktop" Smith, owner of the club Bricktop's on Rue Pigalle, Paris, with Fats Waller and others" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1932. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/576e81d0-c85b-0138-c4da-7df0e7a977ec

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Ada "Bricktop" Smith, owner of the club Bricktop's on Rue Pigalle, Paris, with Fats Waller and others" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 17, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/576e81d0-c85b-0138-c4da-7df0e7a977ec

APA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1932). Ada "Bricktop" Smith, owner of the club Bricktop's on Rue Pigalle, Paris, with Fats Waller and others Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/576e81d0-c85b-0138-c4da-7df0e7a977ec

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/576e81d0-c85b-0138-c4da-7df0e7a977ec | title= (still image) Ada "Bricktop" Smith, owner of the club Bricktop's on Rue Pigalle, Paris, with Fats Waller and others, (1932)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=September 17, 2026 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Ada "Bricktop" Smith, owner of the club Bricktop's on Rue Pigalle, Paris, with Fats Waller and others