Interview with Prentiss Taylor
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV003312-2
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Names
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
- McClendon, Rose, 1884-1936
- Taylor, Prentiss, 1907-1991
- Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
- Collection Creator
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Occupation
- Artists
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American artists
- African American poets
- Poets
- Theater
- Harlem Renaissance
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- See more items in
- Museum Events, Programs, and Projects, 1967-1989
- Extent
- 1 Sound recording (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Date
- circa 1970s
- Custodial History
- Created for Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. Interviewer: Becky Welch. Recorded by: Denise Howell.
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-023, Item ACMA AV003312-1
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Citation
- Interview with Prentiss Taylor, Record Group AV09-023, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Note
- 002425 002426
- Scope and Contents
- Prentiss Taylor talks about working with Langston Hughes to create The Negro Mother and the Scottsboro Limited. The illustrations created by Taylor, and the texts created by Hughes. Taylor talks about Hughes' personality and their relationship to Carl Van Vechten. Additionally, Taylor speaks of the Ethiopian Art Theatre, Rose McClendon, and the origin of Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven.
- Interview. Sound is distorted. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. Undated.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1568815250523-1568815250709-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
