Museum object · Photographs and Still Images
Print of Cab Calloway wearing a white tuxedo
1930s - 1950s; printed later
Havana, Cuba, Caribbean, Latin America, North and Central America
Source catalog description
This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.
A black and white photograph of Cab Calloway wearing a light colored tuxedo with tail coat. Calloway is posed standing in front of a spotlight, his knees bent, his arms held out from his sides with index fingers pointing, and his head turned slightly to his proper right, smiling widely. The spotlight casts a bright arc against the dark background and Calloway's shadow is behind and to the left of him. A photographer's signature is in the bottom left part of the image: [C (illegible) / la Habana]. At the bottom right corner of the print is printed: [MOSS PHOTO, N.Y.].
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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13
Catalog reference: 2013.237.18
