Evans-Tibbs Collection
Object Details
- Biographical/Historical note
- The Evans-Tibbs collection form part of the family papers acquired from the Evans-Tibbs Collection museum, which closed in 1996, and centers around the life of Lillian Evans Tibbs. The museum was formerly the home of Evans, the first African American woman to sing opera with an organized European company. She was born in Washington, DC to a cultured, well-educated, middle-class family. Her mother was Annie Lillian Evans, a music teacher in the DC public school system, and her father was Wilson Bruce Evans, organizer and first principal of Armstrong Technical High School in Washington, DC. Hiram Revels, the first black U.S. senator, was her great-uncle and two other family members are credited with taking part in John Borwn's raid on Harper's Ferry. She married Howard University music professor, Roy W. Tibbs in 1918. Her stage name, Madame Evanti, is a combination of her last name and her husband's. Evans had one child, Thurlow Tibbs Sr., and two grandchildren, Diane Elizabeth and Thurlow Evans Tibbs. Thurlow Jr., operated the Evans-Tibbs Collection museum until 1996, a year before his death.
- Date
- circa 1850-1997
- Extent
- 25.54 Linear feet (46 boxes; 3 cabinet drawers)
- Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Citation
- Evans-Tibbs collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution, gift of the Estate of Thurlow E. Tibbs, Jr.
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Photograph albums
- Sheet music
- Letters (correspondence)
- Topic
- African American families
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- Oberlin (Ohio)
- Identifier
- ACMA.06-016
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EAD Collection Results
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Lillian Evanti pose with parrot
- Tibbs Family
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Lillian Evanti and John Hoskins perform at the Hall of the Americas Pan American Union
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Eliza Brooks
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Lillian Evanti
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Elizabeth Moore Tibbs and Diane Elizabeth Tibbs
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Lillian Evanti with pet
- Photograph Albums and Scrapbooks
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Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.
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Joseph HB Evans
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Elizabeth Moore Tibbs and daughter Diane Elizabeth Tibbs
- Publicity and Special Events
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Victory Mass Assembly District of Columbia Branch, NAACP program
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Lillian Evanti
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Lillian Evanti in Park
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Lillian Evanti portrait
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Lillian Evanti
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Brooks family
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Lillian Evanti pose with parrot
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Recital of Lillian Evanti at New England Mutual Hall invitation
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5th Annual American Negro Music Festival program
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Lillian Evans
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Lillian Evanti, International Lyric-Coloratura Soprano in Recital, Vermont Avenue Baptist Church program
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Daniel Murray
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- Metadata Usage
- online_visual_material
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