Gelatin silver print of of Roland Hayes
date: label: Date
content: 1923
name: label: Photograph by
content: Underwood & Underwood, American, 1881 - 1940s
label: Subject of
content: Roland Hayes, American, 1887 - 1977
notes: label: Description
content: A black and white photograph of Roland Hayes.
label: Description
content: Hayes is pictured from the shoulders up and is wearing a white collared shirt, a dark suit jacket and matching vest and a polka dot bowtie. He has a white pocket square and curly hair. There are no inscriptions on the front.
label: Description
content: On the back of the print is a stamped copyright notice for Underwood & Underwood and the stamped date "DEC 10 1923," along with an adhered piece of paper with typed caption reading "COLORED CARUSO RETURNING TO U.S. AFTER EUROPEAN TRIUMPH: Recent portrait of ROLAND HAYES, the colored tenor who is ranked by Europeans as among the finest living was superlatively acclaimed by all New York critics [loss] recent recital. That he has commanded of any situation proved when he calmed a Czech race riot at the Prague a change from an Italian to American number was [loss] from the platform and he sang in English. He is at present on his way back to the United [loss]."
place: label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Prague, Czech Republic, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Composers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Photography
label: Topic
content: Singers (Musicians)
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2015.97.38.22.1
objectType: label: Type
content: gelatin silver prints
label: Type
content: portraits
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Public domain
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper with ink on paper with tape
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 7 3/4 × 5 1/4 in. (19.7 × 13.3 cm)