Holiday card from William Grant Still
date: label: Date
content: 1937
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: William Grant Still, American, 1895 - 1978
notes: label: Description
content: A holiday card sent from William Grant Still to Mr. Frank H. Bolner[?].
label: Description
content: An off white piece of paper mounted on similar color card stock, with a purple square piece of paper mounted on the right side. The purple square has a geometric border design in black and features a staff with musical notes above [LENOX AVENUE AND I / WISH YOU / A HAPPY NEW YEAR] printed in black. Beneath the purple square is a printed illustration of gradient golden brown holly leaves and berries along with two perpendicular ribbon stripes printed in gold. In the bottom right corner, handwritten in black ink is [To Mr. Frank H. Bolner, / with sincere wishes / William Grant Still / Dec 28, 1937 / Los Angeles, Cal.]. The back of the card is blank.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Harlem, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
label: Place depicted
content: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Composers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Holidays and festivals
label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Opera (Music)
label: Topic
content: Orchestral (Music)
setName: label: See more items in
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Photographs and Still Images
label: Movement
content: Harlem Renaissance (New Negro Movement)
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: 2015.97.38.3
objectType: label: Type
content: greeting cards
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Sheet): 5 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (14 × 8.9 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Image): 5 1/16 × 3 1/16 in. (12.9 × 7.8 cm)