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Title: Dancers Charles "Honi" Coles, Charles "Cholly" Atkins, Mae Johnson, Alyce Key, and Pete Nugent, Los Angeles, 1940s
Contributor: Merriman, Ted
Date Created and/or Issued: 1940/1949
[1940s?]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: At table, left to right: Charles "Cholly" Atkins, Charles "Hone" Coles, Mae Johnson, unidentified woman, and Pete Nugent. Alyce Key is standing behind the couple at the piano, with a man's hand resting on her shoulder. Atkins and Coles, preeminent tap dancers, performed together for nineteen years, starting in 1940. Atkins was an expert wing dancer, while Coles's specialty was precision.
All information concerning the content and description of the image was provided by Walter Gordon.
The man at the far right of the photo was identified by Mr. Gordon as Langston Hughes; however, there is a handwritten caption identifying him as Peter Nugent Deacon(?).
Type
Identifier: Collection 1867 Box 1 Folder 3
YRLSC_gordonphotos_0084
ark:/21198/zz0025p3sg
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: People
Tap dancers--United States
Poets, American--20th century
Atkins, Cholly
Nugent, Pete, 1909-1973
Coles, Honi, 1911-1992
Johnson, Mae, 1916-1999
Key, Alyce, 1911-2010
Source: Walter L. Gordon, Jr./William C. Beverly, Jr. Collection

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