1. Ruth Brown, and her band performing on stage at Powello's Cafe Date: October 16, 1949 Format: Still image Access: Public
2. 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
3. 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
4. Floyd Ray and his orchestra : Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.) Date: April 19, 1937 Format: Still image Access: Public
5. Lil Armstrong's (stage) orchestra starting tour at Kendonne Theater, Buffalo (N.Y.) Date: 1932 Format: Still image Access: Public
6. 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
8. 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
9. African American men playing various musical instruments, and a woman singing into a microphone on a stage Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Public
10. 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