Photographs
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Schiffman, Frank, 1894-1974
label: Collection Donor
content: Schiffman, Jack
setName: label: See more items in
content: Frank Schiffman Apollo Theatre Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1904-1970, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0540, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists primarily of standard publicity stills of vocalists, comedians, musicians, and other artists who performed at the Apollo Theatre, such as Lena Horne, Bo Diddley, Pearl Bailey, B.B. King, Jackson Five, Pigmeat Markham, Moms Mabley, Dick Gregory, Richard Pryor, and the Nicholas Brothers. Also includes candid shots of Frank Schiffman with business associates and friends. Similar to the print media, many of the photographs were used as illustrations in Ted Fox's Showtime at the Apollo Theater, and Jack Schiffman's Uptown: The Story of Harlem's Apollo Theater. The materials are arranged in alphabetical order by subject.