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 Eartha Kitt teaching a dance class at the Harlem YMCA

Eartha Kitt teaching a dance class at the Harlem YMCA

More Details Cite This Item

58300975

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
Austin Hansen photograph collection

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
Series I: Personalities

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
Kitt, Eartha

This Item

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Eartha Kitt teaching a dance class at the Harlem YMCA
Names
Hansen, Austin, 1910-1996 (Photographer)
Collection

Austin Hansen photograph collection

Series I: Personalities

Kitt, Eartha

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1955 (Approximate)
Place: Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Austin Hansen Collection
Topics
Kitt, Eartha
African American women entertainers
Genres
Photographs
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 21 x 26 cm ; black and white
Type of Resource
Still image
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12017637
MSS Unit ID: 533511
Archives EAD ID: 3393266
Photo Order: 64340
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 89b92d50-c638-0139-7f8e-0242ac110003
Copyright Notice
© The Estate of Austin Hansen.
Rights Statement
This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. 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. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).

Item timeline of events

  • 1910: Creator Born
  • 1955: Created
  • 1996: Creator Died
  • 2023: Digitized
  • 2026: Found by you!
  • 2027

MLA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Eartha Kitt teaching a dance class at the Harlem YMCA" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1955. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9662c8f0-d771-0139-efb0-0242ac110004

Chicago/Turabian Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Eartha Kitt teaching a dance class at the Harlem YMCA" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed September 18, 2026. https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9662c8f0-d771-0139-efb0-0242ac110004

APA Format

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1955). Eartha Kitt teaching a dance class at the Harlem YMCA Retrieved from https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9662c8f0-d771-0139-efb0-0242ac110004

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://old-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/9662c8f0-d771-0139-efb0-0242ac110004 | title= (still image) Eartha Kitt teaching a dance class at the Harlem YMCA, (1955)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=September 18, 2026 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Eartha Kitt teaching a dance class at the Harlem YMCA