Blanche Dunn, the exceedingly stylish Harlem Renaissance-era actress who was also a mainstay at Carl Van Vechten's legendary parties which were, as Langston Hughes put it, “so Negro that they were reported as a matter of course in the colored society columns, just as though they occurred in Harlem instead of West 55th street. Ms. Dunn was essentially an “It” girl of the era: a mainstay at Van Vechten’s legendary parties and, as noted by the legendary Harlem Renaissance writer, painter Richard Bruce Nugent, “at all the Broadway first nights. A party was not a party, a place not a place, without Blanche”. Photo: Carl Van Vechten (1941). Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. #vintageblackglamour #vbgbook #BlancheDunne #CarlVanVechten #1940s #vintage #Harlem by vintageblackglamour