id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5908 Carl Van Vechten - Wikipedia .html text/html 4656 494 68 Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 – December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.[1] He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven. The Beinecke Library also holds a collection titled "Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten's Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939–1964", a collection of 1,884 color Kodachrome slides.[28] The Museum of the City of New York's collection includes 2,174 of Carl Van Vechten's photographs. Images by Carl Van Vechten in the Collections of the Museum of the City of New York[permanent dead link] Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten's Color Photographs of African Americans, 1939–1964, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, features a searchable database of 1,884 rare color Kodachrome slides Carl Van Vechten's Portraits from the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University: over 9,000 black-and-white prints ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5908.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5908.txt