Oral history interview with Gordon Anderson, 2009

Biographical Note

Photographer

Scope and Contents

Background: born 1916 in Baltimore, MD; education: music at Larry London Music School; served Army 1942-1946; career: brief experience as songwriter in New York City, photographer at Royal Theatre in Baltimore, photographer at Apollo Theater; reminiscences of interactions with Apollo performers such as Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Sammy Davis, and Louis Armstrong; anecdotes of Apollo's management under Frank, Jack, and Bobby Schiffman

Subjects

• African American photographers--Interviews.
• Anderson, Gordon, 1920---Interviews.
• Apollo Theater (New York, N.Y. : 125th Street)
• Rowland, Steve, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University of the City of New York and the Apollo Theater Foundation, 2009