1. Roy Milton Band with Jackie Keler & Camille Howard Creator: A.N.P.S. (McQuain O.M.) Photo. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
2. Signed picture of T-Bone Walker to Lucius Long Creator: Adair. Date: April 15, 1946 Format: Still image Access: Public
3. Greetings from the land of My Old Kentucky Home Creator: Adams Specialty Co. (Nashville, Tenn.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
4. Four women listening to Old Black Joe playing banjo Creator: Adams Specialty Co. (Nashville, Tenn.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
5. Musical coons Creator: Adolph Selige Pub. Co. (St. Louis, Mo.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
6. Georgia cake walk : African American men and women in costume dancing the cakewalk, while a man plays the violin Creator: Albertype Co. (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
7. Georgia cake walk : African American men and women in costume dancing the cakewalk, while a man plays the violin Creator: Albertype Co. (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
8. Stringing the banjo [hand colored] : African American men with possums, one stringing a banjo Creator: Allgood, Susie W. Date: 1909 Format: Still image Access: Public
9. Louis Armstrong plays selmer trumpet exclusively : dressed in a suit holding a trumpet leaning against a wall Creator: Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
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12. Signed picture of Don Redman conducting for Alice Creator: Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1931 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
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14. Louis Armstrong plays selmer trumpet exclusively Creator: Apeda Studio (New York, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
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18. Arnett Cobb with saxophone in front of drums Creator: Arsene Studio. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
19. The George Washington Carver High School Band, Gadsden, Alabama Creator: Artvue Post Card Co. (New York, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
20. An older African American man playing the piano with notebooks on top of the piano and a curtain behind him Creator: Avery, Ray. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
21. Jimmie Lunceford and his orchestra Creator: Baker, Gil. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
23. Ernie Fields conducting his orchestra Creator: Bjurstrom, Scotty. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
24. Signed picture of Cab Calloway and his band to Frankie Martin Creator: Bloom. Date: March 16, 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
25. An older African American man in a suit with glasses playing the double bass Creator: Bond, Perc. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
26. Otis Spann during recording session Creator: Bruce. Date: October 1968 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
27. Portrait of Julian Cannonball Adderley, holding a saxophone Creator: Bruno (New York, N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
28. Paul Gayten and his Trio posing with a woman Creator: Bruno, Anthony J., 1894-1976. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
29. Bobby The Sheik Walker in turban with guitar Creator: Burton, E. Date: March 14, year unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
30. Music hath charms [hand colored] Creator: C. T. American Art (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
31. A happy fiddler from Dixie Land [hand colored] Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
32. Music hath charms in Dixie Land Creator: C. T. Photochrom (Chicago, Ill.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
33. Portrait of an African American man with a violin Creator: Capitol Studio. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
34. The Dixie Troubadours : John Rucker and the Dixie chorus, African American men and women in costume, posing on a stage [hand colored] Creator: Carter & Gut (N.Y.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
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40. Portrait of Jonah Jones playing the trumpet next to a microphone Creator: Chilton-Butler. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
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44. Josh White, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie performing at Cafe_ Society in New York City Creator: Delta Haze Coporation. Date: 1940s Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
45. Happy days : down in sunny Dixie [hand colored] Creator: Detroit Photographic Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
46. African American men and women wearing suits and dresses on stage on a roof garden in New York [hand colored] Creator: Detroit Photographic Co. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
47. African Americans playing piano, guitar and double bass Creator: DeVigne, Gaston. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
48. Don Gardner Trio, including Jimmy Smith on organ Creator: DeVigne, Gaston. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
49. Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay [hand colored] Creator: Dixie W. Leach. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
50. Sonny Terry sitting on bench with harmonica Creator: Driggs, Frank. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
51. Tampa Red (Hudson Whittaker) and Leroy Carr : Chicago (Ill.) Creator: Driggs, Frank. Date: 1935 Format: Still image Access: Public
52. The Four Knights : African American men singers, posing in suits Creator: Echte Foto. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
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55. African American man singing into a microphone, with a band playing behind him Creator: Eduardo. Date: January 31, year unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
56. 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 Creator: Elcha (New York, N.Y.) Date: 1921 Format: Still image Access: Public
57. The men and woman of the Seven Syncopators Creator: Elcha, Eduard. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
58. Billy Jones and his Pooh Pans Creator: Evans, Geo. W., Jr. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
59. Bo Diddley on stage with guitar holding both arms in the air with an African American man at the drums Creator: Fiallo, Bob. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
60. African American men singing into microphones, one playing a guitar Creator: Flerlage, Raeburn. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
61. James P. Johnson at piano Creator: Folkways Records. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
62. Count Basie with Bennie Moten and the Victor Recording Orchestra Creator: Fredensk Bros. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
63. Big Bill Broonzy singing while playing a guitar Creator: Gahr, David. Date: 1958 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
64. The famous Piccaninny Band : African American men and boys holding various musical instruments, with their boy conductor holding a baton Creator: Gale & Polden. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
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66. The famous Piccaninny Band : African American men and boys holding musical instruments, and the boy conductor holding a baton Creator: Gale & Polden. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
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68. African American boy standing on a chair, conducting the famous Piccaninny Band Creator: Gale & Polden. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
69. Your's truly, Bennie + Jimmie Creator: Garcin, L. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
70. Willa Saunders Passion Play Jones Creator: Gardner, H. F. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
71. Ray Charles wearing sunglasses, playing piano and singing into a microphone Creator: Gebr. Spanjersberg N. V. (Rotterdam) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
72. Ray Charles wearing sunglasses while singing and playing a piano Creator: Gebr. Spanjersberg N. V. (Rotterdam) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
73. Little Richard playing piano with other musicians playing instruments, with one African American standing on the pinao Creator: Gebr. Spanjersberg N. V. (Rotterdam) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
74. Ike Turner and his band [Kings of Rhythm] : Memphis (Tenn.) Creator: George Burns Studio Date: 1950 approx. Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
75. Signed picture of Layton and Johnstone Creator: Georges, S. Date: April 1930 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
76. Sam Anderson, owner of KFFA, standing between Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Jr. Lockwood during the King Biscuit Time radio program Creator: Gladin's Studio (Helena, Ark.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
77. Men celebrating the 2,000th broadcast of the King Biscuit Time radio program Creator: Gladin's Studio (Helena, Ark.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
78. King Biscuit Time : KFFA, Helena, Arkansas, early 1940's, Sonny Boy Williamson, Sam Anderson & Robert Jr. Lockwood Creator: Gladin, Ivey. Date: 1940s Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
79. Louis Armstrong in a scene with Martha Raye from the Paramout Musical Artists and Models : Movie still Creator: Glaser, Joe. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
80. Shirley Griffiths : African American musician Creator: Goldstein, Kenneth. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
81. Portrait of an African American gospel singer Creator: Gospel Singers Promotion Enterprises, Inc. (Miami, Fla.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
82. Willie Dixon Blues Stars : musical group Creator: Gottesman, Irv. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
83. Johnny Hodges and another man, both playing saxophone Creator: Gottlieb, William P. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
84. Elijah Shaw with marimba Creator: Harrison's Studio. Date: 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
85. Portrait of an African American man in a band uniform, holding a flu_gelhorn, sitting in a chair Creator: Haskell, H. M. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
86. Nat King Cole standing behind a microphone, wiping his face with a towel Creator: Hoffmann, Dezo. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
87. Billy Talor with Tuff Green's Rocketeers Creator: Hooks Brothers. Date: 1993 Format: Still image Access: Public
88. Rock's Trio of Tuff Green's Rocketeers Creator: Hooks Brothers. Date: 1993 Format: Still image Access: Public
89. Zutty Singleton playing drums and symbols Creator: Hot Club. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
90. Nobody works at our house Creator: Illustrated Post Card Co. Date: September 3, 1908 Format: Still image Access: Public
91. Larry Lucie and His Lucienaires Creator: International Artists Corporation. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
92. Eddie South with Joe Harris, Joe Louis, Henry Armstrong, Freddie Wilson and Baby Joe Gans : African American musicians and boxers Creator: Joe Glaser, Inc. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
93. Aphonso Trent's Orchestra in Memphis, Tenn., 1932 Creator: Jones-Purdyes Photographers. Date: 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
94. Alex Green Cotton Club Orchestra in Memphis (Tenn.) Creator: Jones-Puroyes Photographers. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
95. John Lange, Jr. and Blind Boone, posing in suits and coats, with one of them holding a cane Creator: Kansas City Sun. Date: December 5, 1914 Format: Still image Access: Public
96. Portrait of W.C. Handy, author of Father of the Blues : an autobiography Creator: Kesslere, G. Maillard. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
97. Having a good time : a group of African American men and women : with four playing instruments Creator: Knaffl & Bro. (Knoxville, Tenn.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
98. Signed picture of Eubie Blake to Rames Creator: Knight Studio. Date: 1930 Format: Still image Access: Public
99. Lead Belly playing guitar for an audience of men and women, another player seen in the background Creator: Knopf, Hans. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
100. Lead Belly, shown from the back, playing for an audience Creator: Knopf, Hans. Date: 1941 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required