African American Movies &Music – Before 1950 -6

: copyright Magazines 1 & 2

: Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934) … Rudolph Fisher physician, orator, music arranger, and writer during the Harlem Renaissance.

: 1848 BLACK AMERICANA SHEET MUSIC DARK SETT

: Black Americana Palm Tavern Chicago

: BLACK composers JAMES T. BRYMN and CECIL MACK -TANTALIZING EYES

: BLACK show MESSIN’ AROUND- JAMES P JOHNSON -PERRY BRADFORD

: Early BLACK show RUNNIN’ WILD s- EASY GOIN’ MAN by TURNER LAYTON ~ 1924

: Irving Sydney Jordan was born in New York in 1922,

: Harlem Rhapsody –

: Fisk Univ. Jubilee Singers

: Early BLACK stars WILLIAMS & WALKER -I DON’T LIKE NO CHEAP MAN ~ 1897

: MARTIN LUTHER KING tribute EUBIE BLAKE – NOBLE SISSLE

: Sounds From The Ancestors by Kenny Garrett album cover

: Unusual Negro Spirituals – Gospel

: WE ARE AMERICANS TOO by EUBIE BLAKE and ANDY RAZAF

: LOVEJOY, Il. HARLEM NITE CLUB-

: Leonard Jackson (1928 2013) was an American stage, film, and television actor.- photo

: Imamu Sukuma in Five on the Black Hand Side – photo

: Clovice Lewis, who composed his first symphony at the age of 17 book cover

: Clarice Taylor – actress – photo

: BLACK FILM ~ LADY FARE sheet music JAZZ icon JAMES P. JOHNSON

: DUKE ELLINGTON – SCATTIN’ AT THE KIT KAT – 1937

: DUKE ELLINGTON sheet music STEPPIN’ INTO SWING SOCIETY ~ 1938

: LA, Jazz Club- Curtis Mosbys Last Word l 1940s photo

: RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 – photo

: The Record Change Vol. 11 # 05 May 1952 WC Handy

: RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 -5 photo

: RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 -photo 3

: RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 photo -2

: RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 photo -4

: RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 photo -4

: The Record Changer -June 1948 cover

: The Record Changer August 1944 – cover

: The Record Changer Feb 1945 magazine cover

: The Record Changer Feb 1945 magazine- -page

: The Record Changer J Vol. 10 # 11 Nov. 1951 ‘McKinney’ Cotton Pickers”

: The Record Changer Jazz Magazine -10 Oct. 1951 ” Definition of Jazz”

: The Record Changer Jazz Magazine Mar. 1957 -Editorial about Ebony Mag.

: The Record Changer Jazz Magazine Vol. 09 # 10 Nov. 1950 Mag. Cover

: The Record Changer Jazz Magazine Vol. 11 # 04 Apr. 1952 ” Bix or Louis”

: The Record Changer Jazz Magazine Vol. 12 # 05 May 1953 ”What is Pure Jazz”

: The Record Changer Jazz Magazine Vol. 13 # 01 Jan. 1954 -‘Africa and Jazz-

: The Record Changer Jazz Magazine Vol. 13 # 05 May 1954

: The Record Changer Jazz Magazine Vol. 13 # 06 June 1954 — New Jazz’

: The Record Changer Jazz Magazine Vol. 14 # 01 Jan. 1955 ”NYC Jazz”

: The Record Changer Jazz Magazine Vol. 14 # 08 Aug. 1955 ”Joplin’s Late Rags”

: The Record Changer November 15, 1942 Jazz Record Magazine -cover

: The Record Changer October 15 1942 – cover

: he Record Changer- J Gene Sedwick . 1957

: Bro. Charli Storey – gospel – photo

: Jessy Dixon ( 1938 – 2011) American gospel music singer, songwriter, and pianist,

: PHOTO OF THE GREENE SISTERS AND REVEREND S.A HENRY

: Sister Rosetta Tharpe – album cover

: The Gospel In Song HC Book 1875 E. O. Excell’s songs

: Your Arms Too Short To Box With God- gospel musical

: African American History, Cinema, Theater Photo

: Billy Ward & His Dominoes R&B Soul

: Jazz Club Beige Room Pershing Hotel Chicago IL Photo Black Ladies 1940s

: James Emory Garrison (M, 1934 – , 1976) American jazz double bassist.

: Arthur S. Taylor Jr. (1929 – 1995) was an American jazz drummer

: Jack DeJohnette (born 1942)] American jazz drummer, pianist, and composer.

: Julius Arthur Hemphill ( 1938 – A, 1995) was a jazz composer and saxophone player

: Marvin Peterson – started with the Soulmasters in Texas back in the ’60s. As bandleader and trumpeter,

: Noah Howard (, 1943 –, 2010)[was an American free jazz alto saxophonist.

: Randolph Edward ”Randy” Weston (1926 – 2018) was an American jazz pianist and composer

: The Etude Music Magazine August 1924

: William Robert Dixon (, 1925 – 2010)- an American composer and educator.

: c1950 R&B Photo~Sonny Thompson

: Calloway Gare du Nord Paris France April 24 1934

: FOUR INK SPOTS – PHOTOGSIGNED KENNY, WATSON,JONES,MACKEY 1930S

: Louis Armstrong carried triumph in Brazaville 1956

: NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL Lower Mississippi Delta Songs

: RCA Victor-Nipper -Ad With Black Americana Family

: 1919 W.C. HANDY sheet music BLACK ILLUSTRATOR Albert Alex Smith YELLOW DOG BLUES

: BEALE STREET by W. C. HANDY ~ 1917

: BERT WILLIAMS-BLACK illustrator ALBERT ALEX SMITH pub’d PACE & HANDY

: BLACK BLUES pioneer PERRY BRADFORD sh-I DON’T LET NO ONE MAN WORRY ME

: BLACK FILM – EMPEROR JONES starring PAUL ROBESON ~ 1933 Art Deco

: BLACK show ELSIE s-EUBIE BLAKE & NOBLE SISSLE Lovin’ Chile 1923

: BLACK THEATER -HOT RHYTHM feat SAM PAIGE & SLAPS WALLACE ~ 1930

: COTTON CLUB 1932 Black Harlem Revue MINNIE THE MOOCHER’S WEDDING DAY

: COTTON CLUB -1938 Black Harlem Revue YOU’RE A LUCKY GUY

: COTTON CLUB s- 1932 Black Harlem Revue THAT’S WHAT I HATE ABOUT LOVE

: COTTON CLUB s- 1938 Black revue I’M MADLY IN LOVE WITH YOU Cab Calloway

: FATS WALLER-BLACK RASPBERRY JAM ~ 1938

: JAZZ icon JELLY ROLL MORTON sheet music IF YOU KNEW ~ 1938

: JELLY ROLL MORTON she-SWEET SUBSTITUTE ~ 1938

: WALKIN’ ON AIR from 1931 revue FAST AND FURIOUS

: Gatesmouth Moore

: Henry Threadgill, American jazz composer and musician.

: Edgewater Beach Hotel Chicago Jazz Club

: Blues & Rhythm Magazine Mercy Dee Walton 1915 -1962

: Ebony Magazine – December 1956 – Patti Austin – child star

: Ebony Magazine – December 1956 – cover Sammy Davis , jr., Chita Rivera, Olga James

: ELIZABETH CATLETT (AFRICAN-AMERICAN, 1915-2012).

: ELIZABETH CATLETT (AFRICAN-AMERICAN, 1915-2012).

: COTTON CLUB 1937 Black show SHE’S TALL TAN TERRIFIC ~ Bill Robinson & Cab Calloway

: COTTON CLUB s-1933 Black Harlem revue- ON A STEAMER COMING OVER

: COTTON CLUB sheet music 1933 Black show GET YOURSELF A NEW BROOM

: OTTON CLUB sheet music 1934 Black Revue -LIKE A BOLT FROM THE BLUE

: Band Songsters, Sheet Music -3

: BERT WILLIAMS – ZIEGFELD FOLLIES 1919 – BLACK songwriter ALEX ROGERS

: JAZZ composer SPENCER WILLIAMS sheet music SHIM-ME-SHA-WABBLE ~ 1917

: JAZZ icon LOUIS ARMSTRONG- I’VE GOT A HEART FULL OF RHYTHM

: JAZZ PIANO icon JAMES P. JOHNSON sheet music HAVIN’ A BALL

: M. Harold (1935-2012) Oil Painting DISET – America

: Songsters, Sheet Music, Covers -1

: Songsters, Sheet Music, Covers -2

: SOLIDER – WORLD WAR I sheet music DARK TRUE BLUE ~ 1918

: Songwriter SPENCER WILLIAMS sheet music GEORGIA GIGOLO ~ 1929

: STRIDE PIANO icon FATS WALLER sheet music THE PANIC IS ON ~ 1936

: The Negro by W.E. Du Bois – book cover

: The Second Set, Jazz Poetry Anthology – book cover

: Blues & Rhythm, The Gospel Truth.

: c1900-1940 Photos

: . 1922 L AFRICAN AMERICAN MOVIE-THE CRIMSON SKULL Norman Productions

: Flapper 1920’s Photo

: He also played Negro League baseball and MLB. only reference

: BRIGHT ROAD LOBBY CARD -2

: Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948)

: B&B Lounge Bar St. Louis 1950s – trade card

: 1924 ALL-BLACK BROADWAY show RUNNIN’ WILD sheet music EASY GOIN’ MAN

: 1930s Studio Photo~- Showgirl or Dancer

: 1936 BLACK JAZZ composer CLARENCE WILLIAMS sheet music RAILROAD LABOR

: Moon Over Harlem – movie poster

: Roy Lichtenstein-Aspen Winter Jazz Festival-1967

: Jazz Beat Magazine Percy Humphrey

: JAZZ AT THE SMITHSONIAN ART POSTER BY ROMARE BEARDEN

: Atlanta GA Print Article 1979 AJC Jazz Ike Isaacs Bass

: Jitterbug to the Harry James Orchestra

: Jitterbug circa 1935.

: Cats And The Fiddle – album cover

: APOLLO THEATRE -Harlem – NYC

: Doo Wop Era- Harlem New York, Vol.3 -song list

: Zell’s Girls- J & S, Zell’s album song list

: 1952 Olive Moorefield Making Up Role- Lolly- Broadway

: BLACK composer – publisher WILL MARION COOK – 1904

: BLACK composer -publisher SHEPARD N. EDMONDS sheet music ~ 1905

: BLACK composer CHRIS SMITH – SYNCOPATED PIANO ~ PIPING ROCK

: BLACK singer BESSIE SMITH sheet music CHIRPIN THE BLUES Alberta Hunter 1923

: BLACK songwriter ALEX ROGERS – NEVER! pub. GOTHAM-ATTUCKS ~ 1904

: BLACK star BERT WILLIAMS – WHITE FOLKS CALL IT CHANTECLER ~ 1910

: BLACK VAUDEVILLE performers THE KEMPS MYSTERIOUS RAG ~ 1911 -insert

: Youth Wheeling Boots or Shoes Trade Card -enhanced

: 1902 BLACK musical IN DAHOMEY sheet music BERT WILLIAMS and GEORGE WALKER

: 1907 BLACK musical BANDANA LAND c BON BON BUDDY feat. GEORGE WALKER

: 1920’s Red Perkins and His Original Dixie Ramblers

: 1920’s STEPIN FETCHIT PLUS PHOTO

: 1923 Earl Walton Palais de Dance Orchestra Jazz Band

: 1925 King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators Jazz Band

: 1927 Chauncey Downs and His -Rinky Dinks- Jazz Band

: 1928 Mills Blue Rhythm Band Jazz

: 1928 Troy Floyd Shadowland Orchestra Jazz Band

: 1928 Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians Jazz Band

: 1929 Bennie Moten Band, Kansas City Jazz

: 1930 George Morrison Orchestra Jazz Band

: 1932 Eddie Johnson’s Crackerjacks Jazz Band

: 1950s, John Aaron Lewis, pianist- founder Modern Jazz Quartet 1920 -2001

: 1957 Otis Rush First Texas Tour

: 1890 Philadelphia PA QUINTET MUSICIAN BAND – photo.

: 1890 Philadelphia PA QUINTET MUSICIAN BAND – photo.

: BANDANA LAND insert WILL MARION COOK CHRIS SMITH ~ 1908

: BLACK actor-writer S. H. DUDLEY – BACK TO CINCINNATI Chris Smith

: Black Diva of the Thirties – The Life of Ruby Elzy – book cover

: Color Magazine issued Dec. 1953,

: COTTON CLUB -1937 Harlem BLACK REVUE ~ WHERE IS THE SUN

: COTTON CLUB -singer AIDA WARD Can This Be the End of Love 1933

: FASHION AND JAZZ – book cover

: JOSEPHINE BAKER s- VOLUPTUOSA pub’d PARIS ~ 1928

: Performer JAMES GRUNDY -GOOD BYE ELIZA JANE ~ 1903 -insert

: BILL BOJANGLES ROBINSON in Vaudeville 1904 Scissors to Grind

: Singer-dancer SHERMAN COATES sheet music insert 1909 vaudevil

: Walter Page 1900 – 1957 – Bass

: Writer SHEPARD N. EDMONDS s- I AIN’T GOIN’ BACK TO BALTIMO’

: CHICK WEBB JAZZ -PHOTO (c.1930s)

: New Orleans Jazz Players -Paul Shoppe American Mid Century

: New Orleans Jazz Players -Paul Shoppe American Mid Century

: Rhoda Scott (born July 3, 1938) is an American soul jazz organist and singer – photo

: LAFAYETTE Movie Theatre HARLEM NYC Night Marquee Photo 1931

: Freddie Keppard -Jazz – photo

: George Lewis Jazz Photo 1944

: Keita Leila 1950 Black Burlesque

: South African born American singer Miriam Makeba – photo

: Winton Kelly 1931-1971

: Ann Weldon – 1933 2024 singer – photo

: Betty. Bridges 1921-2024 Actress – photo

: Blues & Rhythm Magazine -The Gospel Truth -Larry Dale

: Blues & Rhythm Magazine -The Gospel Truth- Kenny Neal

: Blues & Rhythm Magazine- The Gospel Truth- Tabby Thomas

: Blues & Rhythm Magazine- The Gospel Truth- Tinny Kennedy

: Blues & Rhythm Magazine- The Gospel Truth- ZuZu Bollin

: Carolyn Byrd – actress

: Hallelujah – 1929 all black movie stills —

: Morris Buchanan Photo actor 1923-2014

: Richard Roundtree 1942 2023- actor photo

: 1918 African American Choir – college

: Frederick James Brown (1945-2012) – NYC African American artist.

: (1893-1971) Taylor Gordon is singer in the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.

: 1937 RARE CLUB PLANTATION -photo

: 1952 RHYTHM AND BLUES Music Magazine songs and dingers

: ARNOLD STERLING album cover

: ART TATUM (ca. 1945) jazz pianist

: BIGGEST RHYTHM & BLUES SHOW OF ’54,

: JIMMY SMITH TRIO

: Oscar Micheaux’s THE BETRAYAL (1948) director’s final film Harris Gaines, Verlie Cowan, Evonne Machen

: African American Men Costumes Trader Horn Movie

: JAMES WELDON – J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON – songs

: Slave’s Lament

: Frederick James Brown (1945-2012) w- NYC African American artist.

: BLACK JAZZ – RAG pioneer JAMES REESE EUROPE – DROOP DEM EYES ~ 1912

: 1941 BLACK revue BROWN SKIN GAL IN CALICO – DUKE ELLINGTON

: 1940s Pitch Card~ Vaudeville Comic~Zoot Suit~-Hot Ashes-

: 1928 SONNY CLAY’S Idea Band

: 1922 HANDBILL AFRICAN-AMERICAN MOVIE- THE CRIMSON SKULL Norman Productions

: 1920 Crazy Blues Sheet Music – Mamie Smith and Her Jazz Hounds

: BLACK writer SHELTON BROOKS s YO’ GOT TO BE KIND TO ME ~ Sophie Tucker

: BLACK composer J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON sheet music MARCH ON! ~ 1905

: BLACK show ELSIE c EUBIE BLAKE – NOBLE SISSLE ~ Baby Buntin’ ~ 1923

: BLACK writer SHELTON BROOKS s YO’ GOT TO BE KIND TO ME ~ Sophie Tucker

: BOB COLE – J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON sheet music 1909 show RED MOON

: Dinah Crow – Emancipation Song

: DUKE ELLINGTON s BLACK AND TAN FANTASY piano solo 1927

: AMES WELDON – J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON sheet music SHOO-FLY REGIMENT

: ROBERT GUILLAUME 1927 -2017

: Kari Kari fire eater African man circus performer

: The Black National Anthem ”Lift Up Every Voice” James Weldon

: James Weldon and J. Rosemond Johnson

: COTTON BLOSSOM SINGERS, PINEY WOODS

: African American Music Philadelphia 19th Century Composer -Grand March

: TONI HARPER (SINGER) 1950’s ACTOR’S CASTING AD

: African American Stereotype Marguerita Padula – white

: African-American m- actor Leigh Whipper

: Stan Wilson (born 1922 – , 2005), was an American singer and guitarist.

: 1862 – OLE SHADY Song of the Contraband CIVIL WAR SHEET MUSIC – SLAVERY

: Georg Stanford Brown b.1943 star- TV series -Roots,

: 1900 P-VERMONT BLACK AMERICANA PUBLISHED S—RAGS AND TATTERS-

: FRANCESCA TU – actress

: 1944 Bertha Fitzhugh Baker Recital Program ~ Harlem’s Baptist Temple Church

: Caesar Singles of Chicago

: The Exciting Gospel-aires

: he Harmonizing Four – gospel

: The Sensational Nightingales – gospel

: Unknown gospel quartet

: The Negro Ensemble Company founders and- Rosalind Cash -1938-1995

: 1914 My Old Black Mammy I Love You James E. Elliot

: BLACK RAGTIME great LUCKY & ROBERTS sheet music 1923 show GO-GO

: C.J. FIVE Cotton Club

: BLACK JAZZ writers EUBIE BLAKE & NOBLE SISSLE sheet music

: BLACK RAGTIME composer FRED S. STONE sheet music STONE’S BARN DANCE ~ 1908

: BLACK JAZZ songwriter SPENCER WILLIAMS sheet music SUSIANNA ~ 1929

: BLACK songwriters TIM BRYMN- JOHN LARKINS sheet music IF YOUR HEART IS RIGHT

: BLACK composer J. TIM BRYMN sheet music ASK MAMMY ~ 1908

: BLACK composer J. LEUBRIE HILL sheet music TROMBONE MAN from PASSING SHOW ~ 1915

: BLACK songwriter SIDNEY PERRIN sheet music MY AFRO-MEXICAN QUEEN ~ 1903

: COTTON CLUB sheet music SWINGTIME IN HONOLULU by DUKE ELLINGTON

: BLACK RAGTIME great LUCKY & ROBERTS sheet music 1923 show GO-GO

: United Negro College Fund 1952

: ONE ROUND JONES- Eddie Green as Prize Fighter 1941- Film

: 1959 ‘Gayden Sisters’ – Chicago

: 1937 COTTON CLUB Program

: JET Magazine May 13, 1954 cover Pamela Winters

: BLACK composer WILL MARION COOK ~ 1899

: Cole Bros Circus 1940 Minstrel Band Side Show

: BLACK composers CECIL MACK and WILLIAM H. FARRELL sheet music 1913

: 1919 W.C. HANDY sheet music BLACK ILLUSTRATOR Albert Alex Smith YELLOW DOG BLUES

: BLACK songwriter TONY JACKSON sheet music SOME SWEET DAY ~ 1917

: Star TOM BROWN sheet music BLACK writers ALEX ROGERS Lemonier

: BLACK composers CLARENCE WILLIAMS ~ 1917

: BLACK songwriter SPENCER WILLIAMS sheet music MISSISSIPPI BLUES Lucille Hegamin

: BLACK RAGTIME composer RUSSELL SMITH sheet music VALSE ZENOBIA I- 1915

: BLACK RAGTIME composer HARRY P. GUY sheet music AS LONG AS THERE IS LOVE

: BLACK composer AL JOHNS ~ MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE

: Cavana & Mason Shakespeare Outdone Songster

: SWING DAT HAMMER ‘ Chain-Gang Song -Black Composer

: Jean DuBuffet New Orleans Jazz Band

: SMALLS PARADISE – Harlem

: CHIN TOY 1920 Whistle A Song

: Go Gator and Muddy the Water- Writings From the Federal Writers

: Macbeth 1934 Federal Theatre Project

: Missouri Slave Narratives

: Porgy – Federal Theatre Project – 1934

: Processional 1934 Federal Theatre Project

: Run Little Chillun 1934 Vintage Theater Federal

: SLAVE NARRATIVES From The Federal Writers’ Project 1936-38

: Swing It 1934 Adelphi Theatre NYC Musical Comedy

: THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT – book cover

: W.C. HANDY – MUSIC COVER 1942

: 1896- MA ONLIEST ONE- AN AFRICAN BALLAD

: Men’s Gospel Singing Group -photo

: 1894 military song LEADER OF DE COMPANY B

: 1914 Maceo Pinkard Ragtime 11×14 CHATTANOOGA- BLUES Black Composer

: 1918 WW1 – GOOD BYE ALEXANDER

: Early Vaudeville -f White Comic & His Black Persona -Smoke- Why Worry Show

: JAZZ JOURNAL – MAY 1948 Joe Dananbourgh

: JAZZ JOURNAL 1959 George Lewis

: AZZ JOURNAL Connie Kay

: JAZZ JOURNAL Trummy Young

: Jazz Pianist Tommy Flanagan – photo

: Clarence William’s

: 2 Sheets -Uncle Tom -Topsy -Eva Comic History

: I Hadn’t Anyone Till You, Ray Noble, 1938

: BLACK JAZZ icon JAMES P. JOHNSON and JO’ TRENT sheet music WHISPER SWEET ~ 1935

: BLACK composer DE KOVEN THOMPSON – THE STOMP ~ RENT HOUSE BLUES

: African American composed minstrel Sheet Music. -Hail dat Gospel Tug,- 1880

: Jazz El Grotto Supper Club Chicago IL Photo – 1940s

: EUBIE BLAKE – NOBLE SISSLE – CRADLE OF LOVE ~ 1919

: BLACK RAGTIME composer CLARENCE M. JONES – I DIDN’T KNOW ~ 1922

: BLACK JAZZ piano icon JAMES P. JOHNSON first published song MAMA’S BLUES ~ 1917

: BLACK JAZZ composer CLARENCE WILLIAMS 1893-1965-SONG OF THE EXTRA GANG ~

: BLACK JAZZ CHARLES WARFIELD pub’d PERRY BRADFORD ~ 1923

: BLACK composer W. C. HANDY – SHOEBOOT’S SERENADE ~ Rag Song 1915

: BLACK composer SHELTON BROOKS – SWING THAT THING Handy Bros. 1934

: BLACK composer MACEO PINKARD sheet music YOU SLAY ME ~ 1931

: BLACK composer MACEO PINKARD -YOU LOOK LIKE AN ANGEL ~ 1918

: Black composer -SHELTON BROOKS – COSEY RAG ~ 1911

: ORCHESTRA BIG BAND ON STAGE

: I Want Yer Ma Honey – song

: Ma Curly Headed Baby – song

: W.C. HANDY – INSCRIBED SHEET MUSIC

: W.C. HANDY – St. Louis Blues

: Who Knows- Music with lyrics by African-American Composer 1908 Ernest R. Ball

: 1936 WPA Federal Music Project of New York City

: An Evening with Dunbar 1934 Federal Theatre

: Athletics, WPA Recreation Project

: Bassa Moona 1934 Federal Theatre Project

: Big White Fog 1934 Federal Theatre Project

: Bird of Paradise 1934 Federal Theater Project

: Black & White Revue 1934 Vaudeville

: Black and White Revue 1934 Federal Theatre Project

: Black Empire 1934 Federal Theatre Project -WPA

: Black Empire 1934 Federal Theatre

: Federal Theatre Project,Haiti,-,Boston,MA,1938

: Black composer LUCKEY ROBERTS – 1923 show SHARLEE

: 1924 BLACK musical IN BAMVILLE -EUBIE BLAKE – NOBLE SISSLE ~

: Francis -Frank- Johnson (J1792 1844 [2]) wa African American musician and prolific composer during the Antebellum period.

: COTTON CLUB ‘ MENU B’WAY & 48TH STREET – acts.

: Buddy Johnson Orchestra Billy Mackel Apollo Club Harlem 1939

: 1878 Slavery Dance – magazine

: 1906 He’s A Cousin Of Mine – African American Writers Mack-Smith

: 1945 DEEK WATSON & BROWN DOTS -FOR SENTIMENTAL REASONS – Black Composers

: COTTON CLUB PARADE- YOU’RE A LUCKY GUY ~ 1939

: RAGTIME WHOLLY SMOKE Two-Step Cake Walk 1900

: 1950 Musical Dolls – adv.

: THE ANGELS SANG THAT HAPPY MORN Negro Spiritual

: JELLY ROLL MORTON sheet music SWEETHEART O’ MINE ~ 1926

: MACEO PINKARD Antique Sheet Music WAIT’LL IT’S MOONLIGHT 1925

: MAMIE SMITH Black composer PERRY BRADFORD sheet music FARE-THEE HONEY BLUES

: 1958 African American Jazz~Sax Player Hosea Taylor – Jose Gonzales~

: Fisk Jubilee Singers, Annemarie Heinrich

: Harlem Follies 1949 Black Burlesque

: Mae Murray black jazz band in -CIRCE THE ENCHANTRESS (1924)

: REX INGRAM, Anna Lucasta (1958)

: THE MILLS BROTHERS singers Jazz & Pop

: WILLIAM CLAXTON Jazz Guitarist

: WILL SHADE & Tub Bass

: African Witchcraft dance at the Savoy Ballroom

: Dancing at Savoy Ballroom, Harlem, 1947,

: Dancing At The Savoy Ballroom In Harlem NYC Circa 1947

: Harlem Follies 1949 Black Burlesque

: Keita Leila 1950 Black Burlesque

: Reginald Marsh Tuesday Night At The Savoy Ballroom – American

: Roller skating rink of Savoy Ballroom. Chicago

: Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York City, 1947

: Savoy Ballroom

: Swing dancing at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem New York 1947

: Swing dancing at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem NYC 1947

: TURNER LAYTON- JAZZ

: Zanzibar Nights Jazz 1940

: Junie Cobb & Annabelle – photo

: 1896 -Sheet Music- Happy Days In Dixie-

: African American Handmade 5 String Banjo

: 1930-1936-STRUGGLES-OF-NEGRO-MUSICIAN.-enhanced-scaled

: Jitterbug – Johnson

: Raymond Steth (1917 – 1997), born Raymond Ryles EVOLUTION of SWING America Art Deco

: 1940s Singer Guitar Player (Fender) Mary Kaye Trio,

: RIBBONS – Sheet Music – Ain’t Gonna Kiss Ya – enhanced

: Ragtime SHEET MUSIC POOH BAH BLACKVILLE TOWN

: Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State – book cover

: DIXIE CUPS – Sheet Music – People Say

: BLACK THEATER-EUBIE BLAKE ~ Ain’t We Got Love SWING IT ~ 1937

: 1918 Ragtime AT THE DIXIE MILITARY BALL

: 1848 THE DARK SETT

: TIMBUCTOO AN AFRICAN IDYL TWO STEP 1904

: The Old Home Ain’t What It Used to Be- 1877 -GEORGIA

: SHEET MUSIC THE MASK OF THE AFRICAN KING

: Salem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt known the Tutt Brothers, were American vaudeville producers, writers, and performers of the late 19th …

: BLACK stars BERT WILLIAMS and GEORGE WALKER sheet music MISS MANDY JOHNSON 1908

: LACK JAZZ icon JAMES REESE EUROPE sheet music NOBLE SISSLE & EUBIE BLAKE

: BLACK HARLEM REVUE sheet music CONNIE’S HOT CHOCOLATES of 1936

: Backstage at a nightclub in Harlem New York 1950s – photo

: 1879 – Negro Dialect – songs

: 1928 Unusual Negro Spirituals

: 1945 Let Us Break Bread Together – music sheet

: African American composed gospel Sheet Music. ”Hear Dem Bells” 1880

: Alexander’s Back From Dixie sheet music

: 20 American Songs and Negro Spirituals 1938 -enhanced

: AG TIME MARCH ~ Warren Beebe ~ African American 1897 Syncopated Piano

: Louis Armstrong jazz poster – Golden Dragon – New Orleans – 1935

: Fix Me Jesus- Hall Johnson – African American

: Cotton Hollow Harmony song, 1918

: 1936 Sheet Music CHLOE -Negro

: 24 Negro Melodies Op 59 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

: African Lament – 1931

: AFRICAN-AMERICAN songwriter

: Vivian Reed Signed Al Hirschfeld – BUBBLING BROWN SUGAR

: Todd-Duncan -Lost In The Stars Broadway

: Swing-Mikado

: Sidney Portier-Claudia ONeil – Raisin in the Sun Broadway

: Sammy-Davis-Jr_ Broadway Anna Lucasta

: Leslie Uggams d Al Hirschfeld – ANYTHING GOES – Broadway

: Leslie Uggams Al Hirschfeld – HALLELUJAH BABY

: Lena Horn–Hirschfeld

: Hirschfeld ”Leslie Uggams”

: Hirschfeld Cover ”Porgy and Bess” 1942 Todd Duncan

: L. Scott Caldwell Al Hirschfeld – HOME – Broadway

: Hirschfeld ”Charleston”

: Galt MacDermot Al Hirschfeld- – TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA- Broadway

: Clevant Derricks Al Hirschfeld -DREAMGIRLS – Broadway

: Apollo Chorine by Hirschfeld

: Avon-Long Carib Song – Broadway

: Ben Vereen – Al Hirschfeld – GRIND – Broadway

: André De Shields Al Hirschfeld – AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ – Broadway

: Al Hirschfeld-f Zakes Mokae And Athol Fugard -” Blood Knot”

: Al Hirschfeld, Solid Sender,

: Al Hirschfeld, Scufflin’ In,

: Al Hirschfeld, Jam Session

: Al Hirschfeld, Boogie-Woogie,

: Al Hirschfeld SAMMY DAVIS JR

: Al Hirschfeld JOSEPHINE BAKER IN PARIS

: Al Hirschfeld Charleston From Rhythm

: Al Hirschfeld – Sammy Davis Jr.

: AL HIRSCHFELD – Angella McQeen ”Ain’t Misbehavin”

: Al Hirschfeld – 1941 ”Slow Blues.”

: Al Hirschfeld ”Porgy and Bess 1942” Broadway

: Al Hirschfeld ”Dreamgirls ” Jennifer Holliday Broadway

: African American Cabaret, Chicago – 1941

: 1944 Art Cover A Lucasta NY Times Canada Le & Hilda Simms

: 1940’s- 50’s Burlesque – Exotic Dancer – Photo

: Jim & Jack 1920s Vaudeville Step Dance Duo

: Harmony Serenaders Jazz Orchestra Streckfus steamers 1920s

: ETHEL WATERS sheet music 1927 show AFRICANA

: BLACK STRING BAN-c DIXIE SERENADERS -Let Me Call You Honey -1911

: BLACK composer T. EVERETT WHITE WILLIAMS & PIRON Ragtime Dixie Ball

: BERT WILLIAMS and GEORGE WALKER VOO DOO MAN ~ 1901

: 1922 BLACK show OH JOY! sheet music WHEN YOU’RE CRAZY OVER DADDY

: CABIN IN THE SKY -HIRSHFELD ART LOBBY CARD

: SASSY BLACK BLONDE BURLESQUE DANCER -LATONYIA- ~ 1950s

: 1910 -I Feel Religion Comin’ On

: 1910 ”COTTON TIME” Earl C. Jones African American composer

: Charles Earland ( 1941 – 1999) was an American jazz organist

: Color Magazine -May 1956 cover

: 1931 Galaxy Music Co. – Negro Spirituals

: The jazz singer Al ‘Fats’ Edwards

: Sonny’s Jazz Revellers formed in 1929

: Smith Singers 1952 African American Quartet Gospel Soul

: Photo Lai Founs Acrobats – 1940s

: Jazz pianist Joe Robichaux

: Jazz Pianist Benny Moten And His Orchestra -1926

: Jazz bassist Ernie Shepard

: VOL1 # 1 EBONY SONG PARADE NOV 1955

: Time Magazine Jan 21 1972 Comedian Flip Wilson ‘TVs First Black Superstar’

: STORMY WEATHER sheet music FATS WALLER – LENA HORNE – CAB CALLOWAY

: FATS WALLER sheet music ALL THAT MEAT AND NO POTATOES ~ 1941

: BROADWAY BLACK JAZZ writer FATS WALLER Slightly Less Than Wonderful

: COTTON CLUB ~ BLACK REVUE sheet music YOU’RE A LUCKY GUY ~ 1939

: FATS WALLER sheet music ALL THAT MEAT AND NO POTATOES ~ 1941

: BLACK VAUDEVILLE and FILM star GEORGE DEWEY WASHINGTON sheet music 1924

: BLACK show -SOUTHERNERS -WILL MARION COOK feat. ABBIE MITCHELL

: BLACK JAZZ trio THREE KEYS sheet music RASPUTIN by J. Russel Robinson 1933

: 1938 All Black Movie Gang Wars Gladys Snyder

: AIDA OVERTON WALKER sheet music WHY ADAM SINNED from IN DAHOMEY

: BLACK FILM sheet music SWEETNESS OF YOU from TALL, TAN AND TERRIFIC ~ 1946

: SONGS OF MY PEOPLE by Charles Bertram Johnson -1918….

: La Wanda Page- Comedian

: Gene McDaniels,

: Esquire Lounge – Chicago 1960s

: 1951 Club Harlem Atlantic City

: Earl Grant Nothin’ But The Blues

: Wingy Manone New York 1947

: Nashville TN African American Flamingo Room Club 1954 photo

: Men -Bar Juke Joint Counter Beer -1940s

: Mamie Smith and Jass Hounds

: Lawrence Brown -violin

: Early BLACK star GEORGE WALKER sheet music AN OLD VIRGINIA CAKE WALK ~ 1899

: Blue Grass Club -Cleveland OH

: BLACK stars BERT WILLIAMS and GEORGE WALKER sheet music JONAH MAN ~ IN DAHOMEY

: BLACK JAZZ composer CLARENCE WILLIAMS SHOUT SISTER SHOUT ~ 1930

: BLACK composer-performers CHRIS SMITH and HENRY TROY sheet music FARMYARD BLUES

: VTG 1917 Negro Spirituals Sheet Music -2

: SHEET MUSIC. Harry Brown African American singer

: 1924 Black Americana Spirituals Sheet Music Burleigh

: 1907-09 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES SHEET MUSIC.

: Ezekiel & The Flamingos Chicago Doo Wop

: Daniel Gelin Eleonora Rossi Drago during filming of Slavery

: 1920S- 30S Vaudeville Dancers Singers -2

: 1920S 30S Bertha Gold Vaudeville Dancers Singers -3

: Program 1952 Baptist Temple NYC Lucia Hawkins

: COTTON BLOSSOM SINGERS, PINEY WOODS COUNTRY LIFE SCHOOL

: EDDIE ROCHESTER ANDERSON & JACK BENNY–

: EDDIE ROCHESTER ANDERSON – Cabin in the Sky – musical movie. -2

: EDDIE ROCHESTER ANDERSON -Gone with the Wind – movie

: Jazz Nightclub El Grotto Chicago IL 1950s

: Bessie Smith jazz poster – Frolic Theatre – Birmingham – 1926

: Apollo Theatre Handbill Fats Waller Lucky Millinder jazz poster

: Sidney De Paris, Jimmy Ryan’s Club, New York 1947

: Shirley Horn Loads of Love Jazz Vocal

: Glee Club Rehearsing a Song 1955…

: Mary Kaye, You Don’t Know What Love Is

: Gospel Quintet Songs – 1943 African American Songbook

: EDDIE ROCHESTER ANDERSON & JACK BENNY –.

: Antique POSTCARDS. BLACK AMERICANA. HALLOWEEN. THANKSGIVING. 1908-1909

: July 1955 OUR WORLD Magazine Charlie Parker

: Early BLACK songwriter BOB COLE-J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON arr. 1900

: Early BLACK composer J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON – TAKE ME IN YOUR ARMS

: COTTON CLUB sheet music 1938 Black revue MISS HALLELUJAH BROWN ~ Cab Calloway

: BLACK singer BLUES pioneer MAMIE SMITH sheet music YOUR MAMA IS LONESOME ~ 1921

: BLACK MOVIE sheet music MR. HEPSTER’S DICTIONARY Cab Calloway SENSATIONS of 1945

: BLACK JAZZ singer EVA TAYLOR sheet music CLARENCE WILLIAMS ~ 1923

: 1941 Duke Ellington Stage Musical JUMP FOR JOY – ‘Chocolate Shake’

: Why Did I Tell You I Was Going To Shanghai Sheet Music Cover Art Sybil VTG 1951

: Stevie Wonder ( Stevland Hardaway Judkins) on May 13, 1950,

: Ragtime Black Composers Cecil Mack-Chris Smith -‘The Wrong Pew’

: Mood Indigo by Duke Ellington

: Colored Aristocracy Cake-Walk Sheet Music 1899

: 1913 THE HONEYMOON GLIDE –

: 1904 Black Americana Sheet Music MY HONEY LOU by Chattaway

: 1901 Ragtime -GOING TO LIVE, ANYHOW by Shepard Edmonds

: 1896 Black Americana Sheet Music Happy Days In Dixie

: 1895 Ethiopian Song Susie Do You Lub Me

: 1861 Civil War – Contraband Schottische – Ethnic Original Sheet Music Lithograph

: 1848 BLACK AMERICANA SHEET MUSIC DARK SETT

: W. C. HANDY – CLARENCE JONES sheet music WOOL-LOO-MOO-LOO BLUES

: SOUTHERNERS sheet music WILL MARION COOK feat. ABBIE MITCHELL

: Sinful Tunes and Spirituals- Black Music to the Civil War

: BLACK songwriter W. C. HANDY and ANDY RAZAF sheet music VESUVIUS ~ 1935

: BLACK JAZZ pioneer PERRY BRADFORD sheet music BROKEN HEARTED BLUES ~ 1918

: BLACK JAZZ great JAMES P. JOHNSON -BROADWAY revue 1926 Alabama Stomp

: BLACK composer CECIL MACK CHRIS SMITH sheet music SEND ME TO MY MA

: 1923 Can the Negro serve the Drama- Theatre magazine

: 1923 Can the Negro serve the Drama Theatre Magazine

: 1921 Negro Genius in Greenwich Village

: 1917 Negro in American Drama 2

: Negro Spirituals Chas H Pace Jubilee Singers

: Photo Joe Morris Jazz Trumpeter

: Photo The Crystals Doo Wop

: Photo The Four Vagabonds

: Photo The Heartbreakers

: Photo The Jive Five

: Photo The Midnighters R&B Group

: Photo The Mills Brothers Paper Doll Film

: Photo The Robins

: Photo The Spiritual Lambs

: William Sharp 1960 JAZZ American

: RARE THE EVA JESSYE CHOIR – FLYER

: Ann Delorge Original Vintage Jazz Musician -American

: African American Music Philadelphia 19th Century Composer

: Scott’s Dixie Musicians Grass Brand

: Morris Holt (August 7, 1937 – February 21, 2013), known as Magic Slim, was an American blues singer and guitarist

: Les Hite African American Jazz Musician Band Leader

: Ethel Waters Autobiography- His Eye is on the Sparrow 1951 pages

: Billy -Long-Tall- Mitchell Clovers Singer

: Wayne Wang Chinese American director –

: EBONY SONG PARADE DEC 1956 -The Pilgrim Travellers

: THE HARLEM CHILDREN’S CHORUS – BLACK CHRISTMAS

: MCM Ceramic Triangular Vase Musicians Jazz Age

: Brown Magazine V1 #4- 1954

: Brown Magazine V1 #4- 1954 -3

: Brown Magazine V1 #4- 1954 -2

: All African American Cast~DIRTIE GERTIE from HARLEM~1946 Race Film

: The Music for the Dance by A.B. Frost 1891

: Stepin Fetchit at Club Rialto

: Mabley Show~Vintage c1964

: Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -9

: Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -8

: Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -7

: Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -6

: Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -5

: Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -4

: Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -2

: Jackie -Moms-Mabley Show~Vintage c1964

: Handbill for The Fantabulous Rock n Roll Show of ’57

: Dancer and choreographer, Arthur Mitchell, Harlem Dance 1970- Photo

: 1938 Flyer~All-Star Black Cast~Sugar Hill Baby~Lost African American Film

: BLACK writers BOB COLE, ROSAMOND & JAMES WELDON JOHNSON sheet music MAY IRWIN

: Black Musical Revue Dorothy Dandridge Maya Theater Program Los Angeles CA 1944

: Black Musical Revue Dorothy Dandridge Maya Theater Program Los Angeles CA 1944 -1

: Black Musical Revue Dorothy Dandridge Maya Theater Program Los Angeles CA 1944 -5

: Black Musical Revue Dorothy Dandridge Maya Theater Program Los Angeles CA 1944 -5

: Black Musical Revue Dorothy Dandridge Maya Theater Program Los Angeles CA 1944 -4

: Black Musical Revue Dorothy Dandridge Maya Theater Program Los Angeles CA 1944 -2

: BLACK JAZZ- BROADWAY star ALBERTA HUNTER sheet music MY CASTLE’S ROCKIN’

: BLACK JAZZ sheet music PLAY ‘EM FOR MAMA by CLARENCE WILLIAMS ~ 1920

: BLACK JAZZ sheet music HONKY-TONK STEPPERS’ BALL Jimmie Durante CHRIS SMITH

: BLACK JAZZ sheet music FLY ROUN’ YOUNG LADIES by CECIL MACK, CHRIS SMITH

: BLACK JAZZ legend LOUIS ARMSTRONG sheet music SUGAR FOOT STRUT ~ 1950s

: BLACK JAZZ icon DUKE ELLINGTON sheet music SCAT SONG by CAB CALLOWAY ~ 1932

: BLACK JAZZ greats CLARENCE WILLIAMS, EVA TAYLOR, CLARENCE TODD sheet music

: BLACK JAZZ bandleader LES HITE sheet music -T- BONE BLUES ~ 1941

: BLACK composers W. C. HANDY CHAS. L. COOKE sheet music BIG STICK BLUES MARCH

: BLACK composer CHRIS SMITH sheet music ZIEGFELD FOLLIES 1921 ~ Takes a Good Man

: BLACK CHICAGO sheet music INDIANA AVENUE BLUES by HENRY TROY, CHRIS SMITH

: BLACK BROADWAY sheet music SELECTION from BLACKBIRDS of 1928

: BLACK BROADWAY sheet music JAMES P JOHNSON ~ I’ve Got to Be Lovely to Harry

: BLACK BLUES great MAMIE SMITH sheet music CHRIS SMITH & JIMMIE DURANTE

: 1949 Mabel & Nell Russell – Jazz Piano Organ Duet

: Race Records Catalog, Okeh

: Race Records Catalog, Okeh -2

: Race Records Catalog, Okeh-3

: Race Records Catalog, Okeh -4

: Race Records Catalog, Okeh -5

: Race Records Catalog, Okeh -8.

: Race Records Catalog, Okeh-6

: African American School Photos -7

: Rex Ingram- Photo Porgy & Bess Roles

: HARLEM RENAISSANCE dancer

: SOUTHERN MUSICAL SCENE WATERCOLOR

: BLACK JAZZ greats CLARENCE WILLIAMS, EVA TAYLOR, CLARENCE TODD

: Fredericka Carolyn -Fredi- Washington stage and film actress, civil rights activist, performer, and writer.

: Louis Armstrong Poster,

: Django Reinhardt

: Claude Hopkins 1938 African American Jazz Orchestra Leader Stride Piano

: 1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music Blind Lemon Jefferson

: 1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music Blind Blake

: 1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music – Charlie Jackson

: 1930 ALAIN LOCKE of Harlem Renaissance fame on early BLACK FILMS

: 1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music Ma Rainey

: 1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music Ida Cox

: 1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music – Elzadie Robinson

: ST. LOUIS BLUES BY EARL HINES BOOGIE WOOGIE 1914

: St Louis Blues SCARCE BILLY CORTEZ Cover Blackbirds of 1928

: Scoop Carry 1940 Alt Saxophone

: Savoy jazz poster – Lindy Hop Contest – Harlem – New York – 1930s-40s

: Mulgrew Miller (August 13, 1955 – May 29, 2013) jazz pianist, composer, and educator.

: Maurine Rocco- Boogie-Woogie Piano Transcriptions (1943)

: Little Black Me – – 1909

: 1951 Masses & Mainstream -Negro History Week Communist

: Antique Solid Brass Nubian with Hand Drum

: 1899 Smoky Mokes Cake Walk and Two Step

: 1900 Bunch O’ Blackberries Sheet Music

: 1929 Surrealism Jazz- Music Chicago Tribune

: 12th Street Rag by Euday L Bowman Photo of Pee Wee Hunt – 1944

: 1944 – HAMP’S BOOGIE WOOGIE

: 1941 Sheet Music MILDRED BAILEY (Coeur d’Alene Native American)

: 1932 Native American MILDRED BAILEY- ‘Sleepy Time’

: African American Composer NATHAN BIVINS 1899- I’se A Picking My Company Now

: C 1923 Fats Waller Original Conception ragtime sheet music BUGLE CALL RAG

: Chicken Charlie March and Two Step Sheet Music 1905

: Creole Belles 1901 Sheet Music March Two Step

: Gulf Coast Blues 1923 BESSIE SMITH Clarence Williams

: ETHEL WATERS Sheet Music~1927 Show AFRICANA~ BLACK THEATER

: ELLA FITZGERALD Blues

: DEEP DOWN BLUES HARP, cover image

: King Crap 1900 LEE OREAN SMITH March Two Step

: THOMAS DILWARD- LITTLE PERSON PERFORMER

: LOS ANGELES, CA – 1987: Actress Frances E. Williams poses in character during the 1987 Los Angeles, California, filming of the TV show “Frank’s Place.” (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)

: 1901 Hunky – Dory African American Sheet Music

: 1895 newspaper NYC Ad NEGR0 AMERICA SHOW featuring -500 Southern Colored People

: 1920S INK BLOTTER AD FIRST NATIONAL BANK, VAN BUREN, ART

: Viola Hill Coloratura Soprano African American Recital Programs ++ 1920s

: TORYVILLE – DEMAS DEAN

: OSCAR MICHEAUX – book pages

: Loletha Elayne Falana, better known as Lola Falana, is a former American singer, dancer, and actress. She was born on September 11, 1942, i

: MUSICAL COMEDIAN JAMES WASHINGTON OMAHA BUSINESS CARD

: COTTON CLUB sheet music 1932 Black Revue THAT’S WHAT I HATE ABOUT LOVE

: COTTON CLUB sheet music 1932 Black Revue THAT’S WHAT I HATE ABOUT LOVE

: Cornella Derrick Lampton (1896 -1928), later Cornella Lampton Dawson, pianist and music educator.

: BLACK REVUE sheet music YOUR HEART AND MINE from BLACKBIRDS of 1936

: BLACK REVUE sheet music DIXIE ISN’T DIXIE ANYMORE from BLACKBIRDS of 1939

: BLACK BROADWAY ARGENTINA from STRUT MISS LIZZIE by CREAMER & LAYTON

: The Lunatic A Negro Farce By Frank Dumont Drama Play Booklet 1876

: RAGTIME sheet music THAT CHINESE RAG

: Ethel Waters, Celebrity at a Young Age,

: Buddy Johnson – Buddy Johnson Featuring Ella Johnson Jukebox Hits

: Band Poster Phil Moore 1946 Stars on Parade Eddie South

: 1900 SHEET MUSIC–RAGS AND TATTERS

: AFRICAN-AMERICAN FILM sheet music HEARTS IN DIXIE ~ 1929

: 1937 Ad Harlem Uproar House Revue Erskine Hawkins Orch.

: 1937 Harlem Dancer Tondelayo

: AILEY, Alvin (1931-1989)]. LINDQUIST, John, photo 2

: AILEY, Alvin (1931-1989)]. LINDQUIST, John, photo

: 1880 Music Program~Black Prima Donna Mme. Selika

: 1919 -I’m A Dancing Fool-Sheet Music, By J. Robinson

: 1950s Teenie Harris Photograph~African American Jazz Organist Ruby Young

: C.B. Stroud – dancer

: c1963 Photo~Sam Cooke

: Lorenzo ”The HAT”

: Mary Dickerson -singer

: Negro Entertainment Ensemble.

: PHOTO Unknown Group

: PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES Fred Skinner

: PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES Tina Dixon

: PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES Pierce & Pierce

: PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES- Gladys Palmer

: PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES. Effie Smith

: PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES. Margie Thompson

: PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAZZ BLUES -3

: PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAZZ BLUES -Rabon ferrante

: HOTOGRAPHS OF JAZZ BLUES Betty Hall Jones

: PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAZZ BLUES Cat-O-Lac Four

: Roy Milton & Luke Jones

: Troy Floyd and his Plaza Hotel Orchestra

: Vivianne Greene

: ORIGINAL POSTER FOR 1963 GOSPEL CONCERT

: Nobel Sisle 1930

: Diosa Costello – dancer

: Apollo- Tropicana Harlem concert

: Chick & Young Chico Harlem boogie-woogie dancers 1955

: LORIA EDWARDS PEGGY PETTIT Black Girl ‘72 G.E. b1944-1988

: BLACK BURLESQUE CLUB SAVANNAH Revue ~ MARDI GRAS IN NEW ORLEANS

: BLACK THEATER sheet music LANGSTON HUGHES play

: 1963 GOSPEL CONCERT

: Theatre Program Darktown Follies Bill King Local 840 UAW CIO

: VIRGINIA AFRICAN-AMERICAN POSTER BROADSIDE

: Bronzeville Chicago Blues Promotional Art Poster

: Willie the Lion Smith Music On My Mind Memoirs author

: Jocko And His Rock ‘N’ Roll Stars- 1950 African American DJ

: Jocko – Jive Bombers

: Marlene Warfield was born on 19 June 1941 in Queens, New York,

: AFRICAN AMERICAN ERNEST WHITMAN

: 1900S THE SISTERS LUNGLA BEHIND THE SCENES BLACK AMERICANA

: African American Popular Music & Musicians 1895-1930 page

: African American Popular Music & Musicians 1895-1930 pages

: Ginger Smock – violinist

: CIRCA 1920S – 1930S – Index page1 only

: CIRCA 1920S – 1930S Martha Copeland -2

: CIRCA 1920S – 1930S -Washington Phillips

: CIRCA 1920S – 1930S COLUMBIA RECORDS RACE RECORDS

: JET Magazine December 31, 1959

: LOLA FALANA Actress Cover JET Magazine

: BLACK JAZZ sheet music DO I CARE– NO! NO! by CAB CALLOWAY ~ 1940

: BLACK JAZZ PIANO sheet music JOHNNY COME LATELY by BILLY STRAYHORN ~ 1944

: BLACK composer CHRIS SMITH sheet music SYNCOPATED piano SAN FRANCISCO BLUES

: BLACK BROADWAY sheet music CREAMER & LAYTON ~ 1922 revue STRUT MISS LIZZIE

: 1916 Sheet Music FUN ON THE LEVEE CAKE WALK

: 1946 BROADWAY sheet music WHEN I WALK WITH YOU Beggar’s Holiday DUKE ELLINGTON

: 1970Movie Photo African American Actress Zee Wilson

: Rare JAZZ PIANO sheet music AFRICAN ROCK by MURRAY ARNOLD ~ 1955

: Negro Spirituals Chas H Pace Jubilee Singers

: 1905 Black Americana Sheet Music -Is Yo- Yo Is-

: Jet Magazine February 4 1954 Dolores Harper – entertainer

: BLACK JAZZ sheet music STEPPIN’ INTO SWING SOCIETY by DUKE ELLINGTON ~ 1938

: BLACK JAZZ sheet music STRUTTIN’ YO’ STUFF by SPENCER WILLIAMS ~ 1920

: Charles Gordone first African American playwright to receive a Pulitzer, and No Place to Be Somebody was the first off-Broadway play to receive the award.

: 1922 Black Sheet Music At the Honky-Tonk Steppers Ball~Jimmy Durante

: 1924 BROADWAY sheet music BLACK JAZZ composer SPENCER WILLIAMS

: Soulful vibes of Singer Kim Weston

: Sarina Grant (1948 – 2005) – Character Actress –

: 1920’s African American Roller skating Performer

: 1948 FRANKIE DARRO AFRICAN AMERICAN SAM MCDANIEL

: Ann Weldon (1933 – 2024) – Singer, Actress –

: Betty Bridges (1921 – 2024)- ‘Backstairs At The White House

: Carolyn Byrd actress

: Jason Bernard (1938 – 1996) – ‘Cagney and Lacy’

: Magazine Sonya Frank and Sonja Washington

: JET MAGAZINE June 14 1962 Coed Contest Winner

: Jet Magazine September 10 1959 Toni Harper

: Jet Magazine Vintage Issue May 28 1964 Mimi Dillard

: RAGTIME composer CLARENCE M. JONES-TROT ALONG ~ Chicago 1922

: BLACK BROADWAY sheet music BROWN-SKIN GAL ~ JUMP FOR JOY by DUKE ELLINGTON

: BLACK composer SPENCER WILLIAMS – DOWN IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY

: BLACK composers CHRIS SMITH & SHELTON BROOKS sheet music JAZZ DANCE REPERTOIRE

: BLACK composers CHRIS SMITH and HARRY BROWN sheet music WHO’S THERE ~ 1905

: BLACK composers CLARENCE WILLIAMS, CHRIS SMITH, TIM BRYMN – 1923

: BLACK JAZZ – HEART OF MINE ~ CHICK WEBB w ELLA FITZGERALD ~ 1938

: BLACK JAZZ JAMES P. JOHNSON – JO’ TRENT- WHISPER SWEET

: BLACK JAZZ SHAKE IT AND BREAK IT pub. PACE & HANDY ~ 1920

: BLACK JAZZ composer SPENCER WILLIAMS sheet music U CAN’T TAKE MY MEM’RIES ~ 1928

: BLACK JAZZ -FATS WALLER – ANITA ~ 1939

: BLACK JAZZ songwriters ANDY RAZAF and CHICK WEBB -CRYIN’ MOOD ~ 1937

: BLACK poet LANGSTON HUGHES – STREET SCENE- What Good Would the Moon Be

: BLACK RAG composer CLARENCE M. JONES sheet music PAULINE WALTZ ~ 1914

: BLACK songwriter CHRIS SMITH – YOUR MAMMA’S GONNA SHEBA ON YOU

: BLACK writer JAMES WELDON JOHNSON QUEEN QUALITY Two-Step 1903

: BROADWAY s- FATS WALLER This is So Nice -EARLY TO BED

: JOE LOUIS OF LOVE feat. EVA TAYLOR ~ ANDY RAZAF

: CLARENCE WILLIAMS – BLACK composers CHRIS SMITH, TIM BRYMN ~ 1922

: Blind Boone Concert Co.

: BLACK writer-performer CHRIS SMITH JOHN LARKINS ~ I Want a Little Loving

: BLACK RAG great JAMES SCOTT – RAGTIME BETTY

: BLACK RAGTIME composer JAMES M. WHITE -I’M EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD

: BLACK star BERT WILLIAMS- VAMPIRE from ZIEGFELD FOLLIES of 1914

: BLACK JAZZ great JAMES P. JOHNSON – STOP IT feat. SOPHIE TUCKER

: BLACK JAZZ – JAMES P. JOHNSON – MAMA’S BLUES ~ 1917

: BLACK composers CHRIS SMITH – ELMER BOWMAN s 1905 Sweetie Don’t

: BLACK composer J. BERNI BARBOUR-Squeezing the Mule

: BLACK composer J TIM BRYMN – COCOANUT GROVE JAZZ

: BLACK composer J ROSAMOND JOHNSON SIBERIAN DIP syncopated piano 1911

: BLACK BROADWAY c BERRY BROTHERS ~ BLACKBIRDS of 1930 Papa De Dada

: BLACK composer AL JOHNS sIN DAHOMEY-SYNCOPATED PIANO ~ 1902

: BLACK BROADWAY IN DAHOMEY ~ MOLLY GREEN- Will Marion Cook 1902

: BLACK BROADWAY -c JOE JORDAN Will Marion Cook AIDA OVERTON WALKER

: BERT WILLIAMS and GEORGE WALKER sheet music 1896

: BERT WILLIAMS 1896 O I Don’t Know You’re Not So Warm

: CLIFTON DAVIS MELBA MOORE in Lost In The Stars

: 1910s Band Nuckolls City Fair Nebraska

: ABYSSINIA early BLACK BROADWAY BERT WILLLIAMS – AIDA OVERTON WALKER

: (African-American sheet music) Bland, James A. -2

: African-American sheet music) Bland, James A. -2

: The Will Mastin Trio Starring Sammy Davis, Jr.

: Vintage Old Black Americana Southern Folk Art Banjo Oil Painting -Berry

: Street Musicians 1872 BANJO VIOLIN PLAYER Antique Harper’s Weekly

: Pastime In Dixie Young Girl Playing Banjo c1900-20s

: EARLY 1900S UNCLE TOM’S CABIN THE DEATH OF UNCLE TOM

: 1939 JAZZ TRUMPET DANCE BOOGIE WOOGIE MUSIC

: 1965 Minneapolis Doris Hines Jazz Singer

: 1972 Actor Irwin C Watson

: Annie Ross singer

: Billy Harper Jazz

: Eddie Jefferson, Jazz Singer

: Flora Purim Jazz singer

: Hank Jones- Jazz

: Hank Mobley -Jazz

: Howard McGhee, Jazz Trumpet

: Jack DeJohnette, 1976 Jazz

: Lonnie Liston Smith Jazz Soul Funk

: Kevin Eubanks, Guitar

: Jazz Music Musician- Stephane Grappelli

: Oliver Nelson, Jazz Saxophone photo

: Papa Celestin Jazz

: Paul Colin Alix Combelle Jazz Band Record

: Pharoah Sanders Karma Poster

: Sonny Fortune Jazz

: Terence Blanchard, 1989

: Tommy Ladnier, Jazz Trumpet

: BEVERLY TODD actress

: W. C. HANDY – BLACK COWBOY sheet music HOOKING COW BLUES Pace & Handy 1917

: SYNCOPATED PIANO sheet music PANAMA by BLACK composer WILLIAM H. TYERS ~ 1911

: SYNCOPATED PIANO sheet music OH YOU DRUMMER by BLACK composer J. LEUBRIE HILL

: DUKE ELLINGTON sheet music EVERYTHING BUT YOU ~ 1945 Black Jazz

: BLACK SONGWRITER- PUBLISHER sheet music WAY DOWN EAST by CECIL MACK ~ 1910

: BLACK RAGTIME composer HARRY P. GUY sheet music LOVE’S ETERNITY ~ 1915

: BLACK RAG composer FRED S. STONE sheet music STONE’S BARN DANCE piano solo 1908

: BLACK RAG composer CLARENCE JONES sheet music IN SEARCH OF A HUSBAND

: BLACK NEW ORLEANS publisher WILLIAMS & PIRON sheet music RAGTIME

: BLACK JAZZ great SIDNEY BECHET sheet music PLEASURE MAD Blossom Seeley 1924

: BLACK JAZZ great DUKE ELLINGTON sheet music 1935 piano solo BIRD OF PARADISE

: BLACK HISTORICAL sheet music WE ARE AMERICAN TOO ~ EUBIE BLAKE & ANDY RAZAF

: BLACK GOSPEL singers CBS JUBILAIRES sheet music SLEEP-HAPPY ~ 1944

: BLACK COMPOSER ~ JAMES T. BRYMN sheet music ASK MAMMY ~ 1908

: BLACK composer PORTER GRAINGER sheet music LAUGHIN’ CRYIN’ BLUES ~ 1923

: BLACK composer CHRIS SMITH sheet music GOOFER DUST ~ HOODOO song 1915

: BLACK BROADWAY show GO-GO sheet music RAG composer LUCKY ROBERTS ~ 1924

: BLACK BROADWAY sheet music CHOCOLATE SHAKE ~ JUMP FOR JOY by DUKE ELLINGTON

: BLACK BROADWAY sheet music BERT WILLIAMS Fas’ Fas’ World BANDANA LAND

: BLACK BLUES composer- publisher PERRY BRADFORD sheet music FRANKIE ~ 1921

: BERT WILLIAMS sheet music ABRAHAM LINCOLN JONES by CHRIS SMITH

: BERT WILLIAMS – GEORGE WALKER sheet music FORTUNE TELLING MAN

: BEALE STREET BLUES by W. C. HANDY iconic BLACK COMPSOSER ~ 1917

: 1924 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES sheet music BLACK JAZZ composer SPENCER WILLIAMS Broadway

: 1910 BLACK BROADWAY -AIDA OVERTON WALKER in DRAG rag comp FORD DABNEY

: 1902 BLACK BROADWAY sheet music ERNEST HOGAN song MISSIONARY MAN w MATTIE WILKES

: Junior Mance -Harlem Lullaby

: CIRCA 1940S LARRY STEELE RHYTHM ON BROADWAY

: CIRCA 1940S MURRAIN’S HARLEM CABARET

: CIRCA 1950S AFRICAN AMERICAN – photo

: Cecil Young Quartet (ca. 1920-ca. 1975)

: ESQUIRE’S 1947 JAZZ BOOK First Edition 1946

: ESQUIRE’S 1947 JAZZ BOOK First Edition 1946 -1

: Jazz -The First 100 Years – Aaron Douglas cover

: The Claude Williamson Trio

: The First Book of Jazz, Langston Hughes, 1955 Boogie-Woogie

: The First Book of Jazz, Langston Hughes, 1955, F Work Songs

: The First Book of Jazz, Langston Hughes, 1955, Franklin Watts

: The First Book of Jazz, Langston Hughes, 1955,

: The singer Billie Poole

: The singer John Littleton

: Willie Mitchell – Jazz Trumpeter

: Nicolas Sarkozy jazz festival

: Andy Kirk sheet music

: Baby Won’t You Please Come Home – Warfield Williams sheet music

: Bessie Smith – Clarence Williams

: Billy Ekstein -photo

: Black Americana sheet music Cast Away- The Island of Love

: Duke Ellington- Blues sheet music.

: Elaine Delmar Jazz Singe

: Ella Fitzgerald – sheet music – ..

: Ella Fitzgerald -I Taught her Everything She Knows

: Louis Armstrong – 50 Hot Chocolates

: Mamie Smith Her Personal Favorites

: My Cabin of Dreams – Andy Kirk

: Nina Kristofferon -The Billie Holiday Story Jazz Singer

: Oh, Light Your Lamps

: Perry Bradford & Amy Smith

: That Dixie Jazz for Mine

: That’s A Plenty – Bert Williams

: The Glazier Circuit Singers

: Choice Dialect and Vaudeville Stage Jokes Frederick J Drake 1903

: 1937 OFELIA DIAZ AFRICAN AMERICAN ENTERTAINER

: BLACK BLUES composer- publisher PERRY BRADFORD sheet music FRANKIE ~ 1921

: You Talk Too Much -Ric & Ron

: Willie Headen -Blame It On The Blues

: Vocalist Johnny Hartman

: VICKI ANDERSON Wide Awake In A Dream

: Smiley Lewis – No No – Rhythm N Blues

: Sugarboy Crawford

: The Swaneers Quartet

: The Victory Singers

: Richard -Groove- Holmes, Jazz

: Paul Gayten & Annie Laurie – Creole Gal

: Noble Watts – Honkin’, Shakin’, & Slidin’ – 1954- 1962

: Kenny Barron- One Of Most Influential Jazz Pianist

: Journal of Popular Film, 1975 -2

: Journal of Popular Film, 1975 Sunday Dinners

: Journal of Popular Film, 1975

: Jubilee Jezebels

: Johnny Jones The Session Years 1956-1966

: Johnny Adams Meets Lee Dorsey 1959 – 1961

: J.T. Brown And His Boogie Boys~Rockin’ With J.T.

: Eloise Laws b.1943

: Cotton Pickin’ Time In Alabam’ Sheet Music 1916

: Dave Bartholomew – The Monkey

: Deep Southern Soul by Eldridge Holmes

: Dolly Cooper Ay La Bah

: African American trombonist tap dancer, Ellis Jackson

: African American Dancers Ballerinas – 1945

: 1924 Christofo Columbo Sheet Music

: ‘LL BE ROCKIN’ – LeRoy Kirkland

: African American 19th Century Composer -Princeton Grand March-

: 1944 Advertising Card. Wigden Colored Trio. Tent Evangel.

: 1925 Vaudeville~Only African American Male Impersonator~Pittsburgh

: Burlesque Dancer African American Photo- Rita Cortes

: DIANA ROSS ORIGINAL HARRY LANGDON FAMOUS POSE

: ELLEN HOLLY – African American actress TAKE A GIANT STEP

: I Aint’ Got Time……… sheet music

: Martha Rose Reeves is an American R&B and pop singer. b.1941 Motown

: William Farina Florence Price composer

: Am I Blue.. sheet music

: Actor John S Patterson

: Jet magazine- Janet League – actress

: Rose -Chi-Chi- Murphy (1913-1989) was a distinctive American jazz pianist and singer

: JOHN BUBBLES – ELISABETH WELCH –

: Brenda Russell R&B Pop Soul Jazz Singer Songwriter b. 1949

: Black Burlesque Photo 1960 Roxanne Of Harlem

: African American Woman 1950 Black Burlesque

: May 1945 ARMY Newspaper ROUNDUP

: Juke Joint Saturday Night

: BLACK OPERA SINGER ….

: BLACK OPERA LEADER

: Virginia Melodies, Alexander Kyle, African American

: Dancer-Founder Donald McKayle leading his company in class

: DEAR LINCOLN SIGNED by RAG Composer JOE JORDAN

: Jim Crow Jubilee African American Musicians,1847

: Mills Brothers I’ll be Around

: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Sheet Music Eliza’s Flight 1852

: Choreographer Talley Beatty, signed by Jack Mitchell.

: Band Box on Broadway Rhythm in the Round Jazz

: 1908 I’M GOING BACK BACK TO KENTUCKY ….

: 1950s African American Formal Dance Ballroom

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