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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Annie Brooks Evans
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Lillian Evanti pose with parrot
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Lillian Evanti
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Portrait of African American man
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Lillian Evanti
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Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.
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Lillian Evanti
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Dr. L. S. Rowe, Dr. Luis Quintanilla, Lillian Evanti, and John Hoskins
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Lillian Evanti wears opera costume from Lucia di Lammermour.
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Lillian Evanti sings for her sorority, Zeta Phi Beta
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Lillian Evanti
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Lillian Evanti wears opera costume from La Traviata
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Lillian Evanti wears opera costume from Lakmé.
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Lillian Evanti
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Lillian Evanti wears opera costume from Lakmé
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Lillian Evanti wears opera costume from Rigoletto
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African American barbershop
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Lillian Evanti pose with parrot
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Wilson Bruce Evans
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Lillian Evanti wears costume from Lucia di Lammermour
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Thurlow Evans Tibbs, Jr.
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Brooks family
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Elizabeth Moore Tibbs and Diane Elizabeth Tibbs
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Lillian Evanti
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