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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The Treble Clef of Washington, D.C., honors local composers program
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Lillian Evanti, National Gallery of Art concert program
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The Byrne Street USO presents Lillian Evanti in a Pre-Anniversary Recital program
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Program for joint commencement Exercises of the Margaret Murray Washington and the Seth L. Phelps Vocational High Schools
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Miss Lillian Evans, pupil of Miss Lulu Vere Childers
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Lillian Evanti, International Lyric-Coloratura Soprano in Recital, Vermont Avenue Baptist Church program
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Lillian Evanti in recital at Asbury Methodist Church
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5th Annual American Negro Music Festival program
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Lillian Evans scrapbook
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Armstrong Manual Training School yearbook
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Souvenir Journal and program, Lillian Evanti in recital, First A.M.E. Zion Church
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The Ministry of Music presents Lillian Evanti in song recital, John Wesley A.M.E. Zion Church program
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Daniel Murray
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Wilson Bruce Evans pose with Armstrong Manual Training School Students
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Lillian Evanti
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Victory Mass Assembly District of Columbia Branch, NAACP program
- The Shiloh Herald, Shiloh Baptist Church program
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