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African American singers
African American motion picture actors and actresses
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African American actors
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African American businesspeople
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Davis, Ellabelle, 1907-1960
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Bricktop, 1894-1984
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Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
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Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
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Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994
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Ellabelle Davis photograph collection
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Robbins-Engel
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Schomburg Photographs and Prints Division
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Schomburg Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
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Portait of Stormé DeLarverié
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Muriel Rahn in costume as Aida
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Caterina Jarboro in costume
Josephine Baker
Negro Actors Guild gathering,…
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Matthews, Edward - Four Saint…
J'ai deux amours...Josephine …
Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker
Studio portrait of actress an…
Josephine Baker
Singer and bandleader Cab Cal…
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Ma Rainey's Jazz Band
Ada "Bricktop" Smith in Paris…
Ada "Bricktop" Smith with uni…
Entertainer and nightclub own…
Bessie Smith
Sarah Vaughan, jazz vocalist,…
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Candid portrait of singer and…
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Cab Calloway and his Orchestr…
Billie Holiday with Louis Arm…
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Paul Robeson, accompanied by …
The singer.
Wilberforce University Quarte…
Noble Sissle; Musician.
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Paul Robeson addressing the a…
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Juanita Hall, conducting the …
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Studio portrait of baritone o…
Paul Robeson joining members …
Paul Robeson at a podium, del…
Paul Robeson at the immigrati…
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Paul Robeson as Othello, and …
Workers at Labor Day exercise…
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Ada "Bricktop" Smith, owner, …
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Scene in Bricktop's, Paris, 1…
Ada "Bricktop" Smith with Lou…
Janet Collins and William War…
Opera singer Ellabelle Davis …
Opera sopranos Ellabelle Davi…
Ellabelle Davis
Ellabelle Davis
Ellabelle Davis
Ellabelle Davis
Ellabelle Davis
Ellabelle Davis at the piano