2. 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
3. A group of actors and actress and African American musicians on stage Date: 1922 Format: Still image Access: Public
5. Aphonso Trent's Orchestra in Memphis, Tenn., 1932 Creator: Jones-Purdyes Photographers. Date: 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
6. Lil Armstrong's (stage) orchestra starting tour at Kendonne Theater, Buffalo (N.Y.) Date: 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
7. The World's Greatest Boys and Girls Drum and Bugle Corps of Hamtramck, Michigan : founded in 1933 by Col. Leo Whittaker Date: 1933 Format: Still image Access: Public
8. Floyd Ray and his orchestra : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.) Date: April 19, 1937 Format: Still image Access: Public
9. Silas Green Band in front of train car in 1939 with Native American entertainer Date: December 2, 1939 Format: Still image Access: Public
10. 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 Date: 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
11. 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 Date: 1940 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
12. 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 Date: February 29, 1940 Format: Still image Access: Public
13. Billie Holiday wearing a dress and necklace seated next to Louis Armstrong wearing a suit standing and playing a trumpet Date: 1947 Format: Still image Access: Public
14. Johnnie Hughes Combo : Philadelphia Pa. Creator: Photo Art Studios. Date: October 29, 1949 Format: Still image Access: Public
15. Ruth Brown, and her band performing on stage at Powello's Cafe Date: October 16, 1949 Format: Still image Access: Public
16. African American singers and musicians performing at concert in Saint Augustine (Fla.) Date: 1950 Format: Still image Access: Public
17. Album cover photo of Brooks Berry & Scrapper Blackwell Creator: Rosenbaum, Art. Date: 1963 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
18. Victoria Spivey in a dress, Lonnie Johnson in a suit, and Muddy Waters in the background at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963 Creator: Wolf, Heinz. Date: 1963 Format: Still image Access: Public
19. Willie Dixon in a suit standing playing the double bass and Victoria Spivey in a dress performing at the American Folk Blues Festival, 1963 Creator: Wolf, Heinz. Date: 1963 Format: Still image Access: Public
20. Victoria Spivey wearing a sweater seated at a piano with a microphone next to her and a guitar laying on top of the piano Creator: Sh. Date: April 9, 1971 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
21. Portia Marshall Washington Pittman, daughter of Booker T. Washington, sitting by a bouquet of flowers Date: February 1975 Format: Still image Access: Public
22. 20th Century Melody Orchestra, Charelston (S.C.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
23. African American female quartet, all wearing dresses Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
24. An African American man dressed in a suit playing a saxophone while jumping with a group of African American men and African American women seated on chairs behind him Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
25. African American men and women wearing suits and dresses on stage on a roof garden in New York Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
26. 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
27. African American men playing various musical instruments, and a woman singing into a microphone on a stage Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
28. African American sextet, wearing suits and dresses, posing together Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
29. African American woman playing a banjo, standing in front of a hedge, next to a bench Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
30. African American woman playing a Slingerland drum set, with a man and amplifiers in the background Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
31. African American woman sitting in a chair holding a violin on her lap Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
32. African American woman sitting on a chair, playing a guitar Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
33. African American women singing in a choir on stage, with a band playing in front of them, and an audience watching from below Creator: Poindexter, Carl. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
34. Album photograph for Softee Man Blues : Doug Quattlebaum Creator: Welding, Pete. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
35. Alice Coltrane playing the piano with man in the background Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
36. Andy Kirk and his 12 clouds of Joy : musical group Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
37. Band playing inside a restaurant, with guests and employees watching Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
38. Beulah Frazier, Philly Ed, Ad Reoden or Mark Hyme and other musicians playing in nightclub in Philadelphia, Pa. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
39. Blind Snooks Eaglin : LP cover photo for That's all right Creator: Oster, Harry. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
40. Bob Margolin, Victoria Spivey, Muddy Waters and Big Eyes Smith performing Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
41. Charles Beckett & Beauticians Volunteer Corps. : woman being crowned by a man, with women sitting around her, and men playing instruments behind them, including John Coltrane on tenor saxophone Creator: Lawson Foto. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
42. 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
43. Earl Bostic and other men and women in front of a record shop Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
44. First Annual Convention of the Ohio Music Association and the National Association of Negro Musicians Inc. Creator: Thompson Studio. Date: July 31, year unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
45. 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
46. 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
47. Group shot of african american musicians with their instruments Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
48. 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
49. Hazel Scott, sitting at a piano Creator: Ray, W. J. G. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required