Postcards from Manhattan: The Portrait Photography of Carl Van Vechten

Postcards from Manhattan: The Portrait Photography of Carl Van Vechten, "...From 1946-1956, the celebrated photographer Carl Van Vechten mailed thousands of portrait postcards to his friend, Karl Priebe, a Wisconsin artist whose personal papers reside in Marquette University’s Department of Special Collections & Archives.
To commemorate the centennial of the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Marquette is pleased to publish over 700 postcards depicting notable African Americans from the first half of the twentieth century.
Photographed between 1932 and 1956, Van Vechten’s subjects included authors, artists, entertainers, and intellectuals, many of whom had been associated with the Harlem Renaissance."