Bathroom in room where Bessie Smith died, Riverside Hotel

Item Information

Title:
Bathroom in room where Bessie Smith died, Riverside Hotel
Description:
Interior of room, famous as a stop for blues players and where Bessie Smith died.
Photographer:
Clark, Gloria Xifaras, 1943-
Date:
December 1993
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
Color photographs
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Collection (local):
Gloria Xifaras Clark Papers
Subjects:
Hotels, motels, etc.--Mississippi--Photographs
Smith, Bessie--1894-1937--Homes and haunts--Photographs
Riverside Hotel (Clarksdale, Miss.)
Places:
Mississippi
Extent:
1 photograph ; 9 x 11.5 cm.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums865-s04-f15-i006
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Clarksdale (Miss.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums865-s04-f15-i006