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Portrait of Ada Brown in a dress
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- Creator:
- Adelwell (N.Y.)
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Edith Wilson wearing dress and necklace with a bow in her hair standing in the opening between two curtains
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- Creator:
- Aldene.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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A side portrait of Mamie Smith wearing a strapless dress, earrings and a necklace
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- Creator:
- Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.)
- Date:
- unknown
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- Still image
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Picture of an African American woman in a dress seated in an ornate wooden chair with her right elbow resting on the chair arm and her hand touching the side of her face
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- Creator:
- Blaul, Louis A.
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- unknown
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- Still image
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La Vern Baker in strapless dress with earrings
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- Creator:
- Bruno, Anthony J., 1894-1976.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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- Public
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Billie Holiday with a necklace, hoop earrings with flowers in her hair
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- Creator:
- Carson, Robin.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Sally Gording wearing a skirt and blouse seated on a bench
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- Creator:
- Dolpe (New York, N.Y.)
- Date:
- 1904
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Marva Trotter, wife of Joe Louis, in a dress on stage with a band, a few African American men in naval uniform with another man and a woman in a dress in the foreground in front of a Christmas tree
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- Creator:
- E.F. Joseph Studios (Oakland, Calif.)
- Date:
- December 28, 1942
- Format:
- Still image
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Portrait of Adelaide Hall wearing a dress and hat
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- Creator:
- Ebue Studio (N.Y.)
- Date:
- 1929
- Format:
- Still image
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- Public
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Lucille Hegamin wearing a sleeveless dress surrounded by men in suits playing drums, a tuba, a trombone, a trumpet, a violin, a saxophone and a piano
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- Creator:
- Elcha (New York, N.Y.)
- Date:
- 1921
- Format:
- Still image
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- Public
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Picture of Lucille Hegamin wearing a dress standing sideways
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- Creator:
- Elcha (New York, N.Y.)
- Date:
- 1920s
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Three pictures of Big Maybelle in a dress with a scarf in her hand singing with a microphone
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- Creator:
- Ferguson Bros. Agency, Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind.)
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Portrait of Adelaide Hall in a dress with her hands crossed on her left shoulder and below her face
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- Creator:
- Gibson (Chicago)
- Date:
- April 9, 1934
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Billie Holiday wearing a dress and necklace with flowers in her hair sitting at a table with bottles and two pineapples with a dog in front of the table
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- Creator:
- Gottlieb Photo.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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Side view of Marion Anderson in a dress
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- Creator:
- Halsman (New York)
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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Marion Anderson wearing a dress and hat at a podium with microphones and a WHAT banner
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- Creator:
- Home Studio of Photography (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Billie Holiday in a dress standing with Louis Armstrong, Lawrence Owens and James Norris wearing suits
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- Creator:
- Hooper, Wert.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Bobbni Caston in a dress holding a microphone separated from men and women seated at tables by a railing
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- Creator:
- Kennedy, Mark.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Billie Holliday singing behind a microphone at a club with men in suits and women in dresses seated at tables in the background
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- Creator:
- Knopf, Hans J.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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- Log In Required
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Billie Holliday, Babe Russin and orchestra performing at the Famous Doon Club, NYC
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- Creator:
- Knopf, Hans J.
- Date:
- 1941
- Format:
- Still image
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- Log In Required
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe wearing a dress playing a guitar
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- Creator:
- Kriegsmann, James J.
- Date:
- August 25, year unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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- Log In Required
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Picture of Ella Fitzgerald in a dress
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- Creator:
- Kriegsmann, James J.
- Date:
- unknown
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- Still image
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Portrait of Hannah Sylvester in a dress with earrings and a cross necklace
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- Creator:
- Kriegsmann, James J.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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- Log In Required
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Picture of Victoria Spivey wearing a dress with a hat and necklace with her left hand pointing to her chin
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- Creator:
- Kunstadt, Len.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Ida Cox wearing a dress standing in front of a bandstand
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- Creator:
- L. Motz Studio.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
26.
Portrait of Billie Holiday
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- Creator:
- Nasib Photos (New York)
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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- Log In Required
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Hazel Scott in a dress and a fur lined coat, Charles McClane and Congressman Adam Clayton in suits standing together in front of a door
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- Creator:
- Peace Photo (Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date:
- October 4, year unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Mrs. H.... in a dress with an open book in her left hand with her right hand raised
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- Creator:
- Phipps, Wm.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Marion Anderson in a dress singing with a music stand and RCA Victor microphone in front of her
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- Creator:
- RCA Corporation.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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- Log In Required
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Melba Liston in performance at Sweet Basil, NYC, playing trombone
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- Creator:
- Ross, Raymond.
- Date:
- 1981
- Format:
- Still image
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Victoria Spivey wearing a sweater seated at a piano with a microphone next to her and a guitar laying on top of the piano
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- Creator:
- Sh.
- Date:
- April 9, 1971
- Format:
- Still image
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- Log In Required
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Seated picture of Mary Lou Williams wearing a dress with a sash and earrings
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- Creator:
- Stigeu.
- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Billie Holliday wearing a maid's dress playing the piano with three women in dresses standing nearby in a scene from New Orleans
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- Creator:
- United Artists Corporation.
- Date:
- 1947
- Format:
- Still image
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Ruth Brown in a strapless dress wwith earrings and high heel shoes behind a microphone on stage in Memphis with an audience of African American men and African American women in the background
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- Creator:
- Withers, Ernest C., 1922-2007.
- Date:
- 1950s
- Format:
- Still image
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- Log In Required
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Victoria Spivey in a dress, Lonnie Johnson in a suit, and Muddy Waters in the background at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963
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- Creator:
- Wolf, Heinz.
- Date:
- 1963
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Willie Dixon in a suit standing playing the double bass and Victoria Spivey in a dress performing at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963
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- Creator:
- Wolf, Heinz.
- Date:
- 1963
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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An African American woman in a dress and three African American men in suits at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963
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- Creator:
- Wolf, Heinz.
- Date:
- 1963
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Victoria Spivey wearing a dress and earrings singing and playing guitar at American Folk Blues Festival, 1963
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- Creator:
- Wolf, Heinz.
- Date:
- 1963
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Victoria Spivey wearing a dress and earrings singing and playing guitar at American Folk Blues Festival, 1963
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- Creator:
- Wolf, Heinz.
- Date:
- 1963
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Victoria Spivey wearing a dress and earrings singing and playing guitar at American Folk Blues Festival, 1963
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- Creator:
- Wolf, Heinz.
- Date:
- 1963
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Jackson, Mahalia, Best Loved Spirituals album cover image, circa 1999
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- Date:
- 1999 approx.
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- Still image
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- Public
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Hendryx, Nona
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- Date:
- unknown
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- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Moore, Alice
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- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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- Public
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Mamie Smith wearing a dress, necklace and hat standing on grass in front of a low hedge
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- Date:
- unknown
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- Still image
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- Public
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Billie Holiday wearing a strapless dress with earrings talking to an African American man in a shirt and tie with a poster for Jazz under the stars between them
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Florence Mills in a dress with her left arm raised leaning against a wall with her left leg extended sideways
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
47.
Bob Margolin, Victoria Spivey, Muddy Waters and Big Eyes Smith performing
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Portrait of Billie Holiday in a strapless fur dress
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Billie Holiday wearing a dress and necklace seated next to Louis Armstrong wearing a suit standing and playing a trumpet
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- Date:
- 1947
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Ella Fitzgerald wearing a dress and corsage behind a microphone leaning back on a table with a double bass on one side of her and sheets of music on the other side
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- Date:
- unknown
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- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Manet Harrison Fowler in a dress standing with her back against a piano with her arms stretched out touching the keys and edge of the piano
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Billie Holiday press photograph
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Vocalion recording session with Roy Eldridge on trumpet, Billie Holliday singing, Jimmy Powell and Carl Frye on alto sax, Kermit Scott on tenor sax, Sonny White on piano, Lawrence Lucie on guitar, John Williams on bass and Doc West on drums
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- Date:
- February 29, 1940
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Billie Holiday in a dress singing with a microphone with a piano in the background
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole Trio on guitar and piano with a man playing drums
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Madam L.W. Finch, blind soloist of the Congregational Christian Conferences and Conventions wearing a choir robe and dark glasses, holding open a book in her left hand with her right hand raised
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Ethel L. Davenport, State official gospel singer of the Eleventh Episcopal District of the A.M.E. Church
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- Date:
- unknown
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- Still image
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- Public
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Madame Mary B. Stone, the great singer
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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- Public
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Ann Robinson in a dress singing at Village Vanguard Club in New York with men and women seated at tables behind her
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- Date:
- 1941
- Format:
- Still image
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- Log In Required
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Ann Robinson wearing a dress, performing at the Village Vanguard Club with a band behind her with men and women seated at tables in front of her
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- Date:
- 1940-1941
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Log In Required
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Dizzy Gillespie in a suit and glasses and Sarah Vaughan in a dress seated in front of a window drinking from a glass and teacup laughing
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- Date:
- June 15, year unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
62.
Billie Holiday performing with Babe Russin and Orchestra at Famous Door Club in New York with a man in a suit and a woman in a dress seated at a table in front of her
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- Date:
- 1941
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Picture of Clarence Helen Hames wearing a dress, watch and ring
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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- Public
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Alice Coltrane playing the piano with man in the background
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- unknown
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- Still image
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- Log In Required
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An African American woman in a dress and high heel shoes standing with one foot on a low table leaning against a wall
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- unknown
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- Still image
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- Public
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Paula Hampton playing the drums
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- Date:
- unknown
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- Still image
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- Public
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Picture of an African American woman in dress with feathers in her hair
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- Date:
- unknown
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- Still image
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- Public
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Billy Holiday wearing a leopard spot coat, Pinckrcy Roberts wearing a suit and Mrs. Roberts wearing a dress seated together behind a table
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- Date:
- unknown
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- Still image
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- Public
69.
Sarah Vaughan singing at a microphone with a band behind her
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
70.
Lena Horne wearing a strapless dress with her hands on her hips
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
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- Public
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An African American women in choir robes holding an open book in her left hand with her right hand raised
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- Date:
- unknown
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- Still image
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- Public
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Lena Horne wearing a dress, high heel shoes, a hat, and a necklace seated in a chair with her feet resting on a sofa reading a script
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- Date:
- 1941 approx.
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Ella Fitzgerald in a dress and hat with earrings singing with a microphone surrounded by African American men wearing suits
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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A seated picture of Lena Horne wearing a strapless dress with long gloves and earrings
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- Date:
- unknown
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- Still image
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- Log In Required
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Picture of Lena Horne wearing an off-the-shoulders dress and earrings
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- unknown
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- Still image
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- Public
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Marion Anderson in a dress singing with a music stand and RCA Victor microphone in front of her
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Two African American men in suits sitting next to an Billie Holiday in a dress
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Big Maybelle on stage behind a microphone with Johnny Otis Orchestra
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- Date:
- February 24, 1956
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Big Maybelle behind a microphone with Johnny Otis Band
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- Date:
- February 24, 1956
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Lena Horne wearing a strapless dress and long gloves reclining with her hands behind her head
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
81.
Picture of Billie Holiday in a dress with Jimmy Powell holding an alto saxophone, Roy Eldridge playing a trumpet, Sonny White playing the piano and John Williams with all the men wearing suits and three of them wearing hats
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- Date:
- 1940
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Picture of Billie Holiday wearing a dress seated on a chair with Sonny White, Lawrence Lucie, John Williams, Kermit Scott, Jimmy Powell, Harold Doc West dressed in suits and hats standing around her
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- Date:
- 1940
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Log In Required
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Billie Holiday in a dress performing at Famous Door Club in N.Y.C. with men and women seated at tables in the background
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- Date:
- 1941
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Johanna Baker singing holding a microphone at a Black nite club
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- Date:
- 1940s
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Side view of Sarah Vaughan wearing a dress singing behind a microphone
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- Date:
- 1940s
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public
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Close picture of Sarah Vaughan wearing a dress and necklace singing into a microphone
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- Date:
- unknown
- Format:
- Still image
- Access:
- Public