# Bessie Smith (1936) by Carl Van Vechten

- By: Carl Van Vechten, restored by Adam Cuerden
- Date: Taken on 3 February 1936
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.09571. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still…
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bessie_Smith_(1936)_by_Carl_Van_Vechten.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/d/d0/Bessie_Smith_%281936%29_by_Carl_Van_Vechten.jpg/1920px-Bessie_Smith_%281936%29_by_Carl_Van_Vechten.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Portrait of Bessie Smith holding feathers