African-American Churches of Augusta County book page

Jazz Trombonist George Brashear

Blues & Rhythm the Gospel Magazine Eddie Clearwater

John Coltrane, Miles Davis 1960 Randall’s Island Jazz Fest

Jazz Journal Magazines — 1958 Bill Coleman

1950s African American Formal Dance Ballroom

1908 I’M GOING BACK BACK TO KENTUCKY ….

Band Box on Broadway Rhythm in the Round Jazz

Choreographer Talley Beatty, signed by Jack Mitchell.

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

Mills Brothers I’ll be Around

Jim Crow Jubilee African American Musicians,1847

DEAR LINCOLN SIGNED by RAG Composer JOE JORDAN

Dancer-Founder Donald McKayle leading his company in class

Virginia Melodies, Alexander Kyle, African American

BLACK OPERA LEADER

BLACK OPERA SINGER ….

Juke Joint Saturday Night

May 1945 ARMY Newspaper ROUNDUP

African American Woman 1950 Black Burlesque

Black Burlesque Photo 1960 Roxanne Of Harlem

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

JOHN BUBBLES – ELISABETH WELCH –

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

Jet magazine- Janet League – actress

Actor John S Patterson

Am I Blue.. sheet music

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

I Aint’ Got Time……… sheet music

ELLEN HOLLY – African American actress TAKE A GIANT STEP

DIANA ROSS ORIGINAL HARRY LANGDON FAMOUS POSE

Burlesque Dancer African American Photo- Rita Cortes

1925 Vaudeville~Only African American Male Impersonator~Pittsburgh

1944 Advertising Card. Wigden Colored Trio. Tent Evangel.

African American 19th Century Composer -Princeton Grand March-

‘LL BE ROCKIN’ – LeRoy Kirkland

1924 Christofo Columbo Sheet Music

African American Dancers Ballerinas – 1945

African American trombonist tap dancer, Ellis Jackson

Dolly Cooper Ay La Bah

Deep Southern Soul by Eldridge Holmes

Dave Bartholomew – The Monkey

Cotton Pickin’ Time In Alabam’ Sheet Music 1916

Eloise Laws b.1943

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

Johnny Adams Meets Lee Dorsey 1959 – 1961

Johnny Jones The Session Years 1956-1966

Jubilee Jezebels

Journal of Popular Film, 1975

Journal of Popular Film, 1975 Sunday Dinners

Journal of Popular Film, 1975 -2

Kenny Barron- One Of Most Influential Jazz Pianist

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

Paul Gayten & Annie Laurie – Creole Gal

Richard -Groove- Holmes, Jazz

The Victory Singers

The Swaneers Quartet

Sugarboy Crawford

Smiley Lewis – No No – Rhythm N Blues

VICKI ANDERSON Wide Awake In A Dream

Vocalist Johnny Hartman

Willie Headen -Blame It On The Blues

You Talk Too Much -Ric & Ron

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

1937 OFELIA DIAZ AFRICAN AMERICAN ENTERTAINER

Choice Dialect and Vaudeville Stage Jokes Frederick J Drake 1903

The Glazier Circuit Singers

That’s A Plenty – Bert Williams

That Dixie Jazz for Mine

Perry Bradford & Amy Smith

Oh, Light Your Lamps

Nina Kristofferon -The Billie Holiday Story Jazz Singer

My Cabin of Dreams – Andy Kirk

Mamie Smith Her Personal Favorites

Louis Armstrong – 50 Hot Chocolates

Ella Fitzgerald -I Taught her Everything She Knows

Ella Fitzgerald – sheet music – ..

Elaine Delmar Jazz Singe

Duke Ellington- Blues sheet music.

Black Americana sheet music Cast Away- The Island of Love

Billy Ekstein -photo

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

Andy Kirk sheet music

Nicolas Sarkozy jazz festival

Willie Mitchell – Jazz Trumpeter

The singer John Littleton

The singer Billie Poole

The First Book of Jazz, Langston Hughes, 1955,

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

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

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

The Claude Williamson Trio

Jazz -The First 100 Years – Aaron Douglas cover

ESQUIRE’S 1947 JAZZ BOOK First Edition 1946 -1

ESQUIRE’S 1947 JAZZ BOOK First Edition 1946

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

CIRCA 1950S AFRICAN AMERICAN – photo

CIRCA 1940S MURRAIN’S HARLEM CABARET

CIRCA 1940S LARRY STEELE RHYTHM ON BROADWAY

Junior Mance -Harlem Lullaby

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

1924 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES sheet music BLACK JAZZ composer SPENCER WILLIAMS Broadway

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

BERT WILLIAMS – GEORGE WALKER sheet music FORTUNE TELLING MAN

BERT WILLIAMS sheet music ABRAHAM LINCOLN JONES by CHRIS SMITH

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BLACK NEW ORLEANS publisher WILLIAMS & PIRON sheet music RAGTIME

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

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

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

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

DUKE ELLINGTON sheet music EVERYTHING BUT YOU ~ 1945 Black Jazz

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

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

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

BEVERLY TODD actress

Tommy Ladnier, Jazz Trumpet

Terence Blanchard, 1989

Sonny Fortune Jazz

Pharoah Sanders Karma Poster

Paul Colin Alix Combelle Jazz Band Record

Papa Celestin Jazz

Oliver Nelson, Jazz Saxophone photo

Jazz Music Musician- Stephane Grappelli

Kevin Eubanks, Guitar

Lonnie Liston Smith Jazz Soul Funk

Jack DeJohnette, 1976 Jazz

Howard McGhee, Jazz Trumpet

Hank Mobley -Jazz

Hank Jones- Jazz

Flora Purim Jazz singer

Eddie Jefferson, Jazz Singer

Billy Harper Jazz

1972 Actor Irwin C Watson

1965 Minneapolis Doris Hines Jazz Singer

1939 JAZZ TRUMPET DANCE BOOGIE WOOGIE MUSIC

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

Pastime In Dixie Young Girl Playing Banjo c1900-20s

Street Musicians 1872 BANJO VIOLIN PLAYER Antique Harper’s Weekly

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

The Will Mastin Trio Starring Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

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

ABYSSINIA early BLACK BROADWAY BERT WILLLIAMS – AIDA OVERTON WALKER

1910s Band Nuckolls City Fair Nebraska

CLIFTON DAVIS MELBA MOORE in Lost In The Stars

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

BERT WILLIAMS and GEORGE WALKER sheet music 1896

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

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

BLACK composer AL JOHNS sIN DAHOMEY-SYNCOPATED PIANO ~ 1902

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

BLACK composer J ROSAMOND JOHNSON SIBERIAN DIP syncopated piano 1911

BLACK composer J TIM BRYMN – COCOANUT GROVE JAZZ

BLACK composer J. BERNI BARBOUR-Squeezing the Mule

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

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

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

BLACK star BERT WILLIAMS- VAMPIRE from ZIEGFELD FOLLIES of 1914

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

BLACK RAG great JAMES SCOTT – RAGTIME BETTY

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

Blind Boone Concert Co.

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

JOE LOUIS OF LOVE feat. EVA TAYLOR ~ ANDY RAZAF

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

BLACK writer JAMES WELDON JOHNSON QUEEN QUALITY Two-Step 1903

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

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

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

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

BLACK JAZZ -FATS WALLER – ANITA ~ 1939

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BLACK composer SPENCER WILLIAMS – DOWN IN SHENANDOAH VALLEY

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

Jet Magazine Vintage Issue May 28 1964 Mimi Dillard

Jet Magazine September 10 1959 Toni Harper

JET MAGAZINE June 14 1962 Coed Contest Winner

Magazine Sonya Frank and Sonja Washington

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

Carolyn Byrd actress

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

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

1948 FRANKIE DARRO AFRICAN AMERICAN SAM MCDANIEL

1920’s African American Roller skating Performer

Sarina Grant (1948 – 2005) – Character Actress –

Soulful vibes of Singer Kim Weston

1924 BROADWAY sheet music BLACK JAZZ composer SPENCER WILLIAMS

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

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.

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

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

Jet Magazine February 4 1954 Dolores Harper – entertainer

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

Negro Spirituals Chas H Pace Jubilee Singers

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

1970Movie Photo African American Actress Zee Wilson

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

1916 Sheet Music FUN ON THE LEVEE CAKE WALK

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

BLACK composer CHRIS SMITH sheet music SYNCOPATED piano SAN FRANCISCO BLUES

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

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

LOLA FALANA Actress Cover JET Magazine

JET Magazine December 31, 1959

CIRCA 1920S – 1930S COLUMBIA RECORDS RACE RECORDS

CIRCA 1920S – 1930S -Washington Phillips

CIRCA 1920S – 1930S Martha Copeland -2

CIRCA 1920S – 1930S – Index page1 only

Ginger Smock – violinist

African American Popular Music & Musicians 1895-1930 pages

African American Popular Music & Musicians 1895-1930 page

1900S THE SISTERS LUNGLA BEHIND THE SCENES BLACK AMERICANA

AFRICAN AMERICAN ERNEST WHITMAN

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

Jocko – Jive Bombers

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

Willie the Lion Smith Music On My Mind Memoirs author

Bronzeville Chicago Blues Promotional Art Poster

VIRGINIA AFRICAN-AMERICAN POSTER BROADSIDE

Theatre Program Darktown Follies Bill King Local 840 UAW CIO

1963 GOSPEL CONCERT

BLACK THEATER sheet music LANGSTON HUGHES play

BLACK BURLESQUE CLUB SAVANNAH Revue ~ MARDI GRAS IN NEW ORLEANS

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

Chick & Young Chico Harlem boogie-woogie dancers 1955

Apollo- Tropicana Harlem concert

Diosa Costello – dancer

Nobel Sisle 1930

ORIGINAL POSTER FOR 1963 GOSPEL CONCERT

Vivianne Greene

Troy Floyd and his Plaza Hotel Orchestra

Roy Milton & Luke Jones

PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAZZ BLUES Cat-O-Lac Four

HOTOGRAPHS OF JAZZ BLUES Betty Hall Jones

PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAZZ BLUES -Rabon ferrante

PHOTOGRAPHS OF JAZZ BLUES -3

PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES. Margie Thompson

PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES. Effie Smith

PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES- Gladys Palmer

PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES Pierce & Pierce

PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES Tina Dixon

PHOTO OF JAZZ BLUES Fred Skinner

PHOTO Unknown Group

Negro Entertainment Ensemble.

Mary Dickerson -singer

Lorenzo ”The HAT”

c1963 Photo~Sam Cooke

C.B. Stroud – dancer

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

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

1880 Music Program~Black Prima Donna Mme. Selika

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

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

1937 Harlem Dancer Tondelayo

1937 Ad Harlem Uproar House Revue Erskine Hawkins Orch.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN FILM sheet music HEARTS IN DIXIE ~ 1929

1900 SHEET MUSIC–RAGS AND TATTERS

Band Poster Phil Moore 1946 Stars on Parade Eddie South

Buddy Johnson – Buddy Johnson Featuring Ella Johnson Jukebox Hits

Ethel Waters, Celebrity at a Young Age,

RAGTIME sheet music THAT CHINESE RAG

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

BLACK BROADWAY ARGENTINA from STRUT MISS LIZZIE by CREAMER & LAYTON

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

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

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

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

MUSICAL COMEDIAN JAMES WASHINGTON OMAHA BUSINESS CARD

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

OSCAR MICHEAUX – book pages

TORYVILLE – DEMAS DEAN

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

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

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

1901 Hunky – Dory African American Sheet Music

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)

THOMAS DILWARD- LITTLE PERSON PERFORMER

King Crap 1900 LEE OREAN SMITH March Two Step

DEEP DOWN BLUES HARP, cover image

ELLA FITZGERALD Blues

ETHEL WATERS Sheet Music~1927 Show AFRICANA~ BLACK THEATER

Gulf Coast Blues 1923 BESSIE SMITH Clarence Williams

Creole Belles 1901 Sheet Music March Two Step

Chicken Charlie March and Two Step Sheet Music 1905

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

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

1932 Native American MILDRED BAILEY- ‘Sleepy Time’

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

1944 – HAMP’S BOOGIE WOOGIE

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

1929 Surrealism Jazz- Music Chicago Tribune

1900 Bunch O’ Blackberries Sheet Music

1899 Smoky Mokes Cake Walk and Two Step

Antique Solid Brass Nubian with Hand Drum

1951 Masses & Mainstream -Negro History Week Communist

Little Black Me – – 1909

Maurine Rocco- Boogie-Woogie Piano Transcriptions (1943)

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

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

Scoop Carry 1940 Alt Saxophone

St Louis Blues SCARCE BILLY CORTEZ Cover Blackbirds of 1928

ST. LOUIS BLUES BY EARL HINES BOOGIE WOOGIE 1914

1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music – Elzadie Robinson

1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music Ida Cox

1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music Ma Rainey

1930 ALAIN LOCKE of Harlem Renaissance fame on early BLACK FILMS

1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music – Charlie Jackson

1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music Blind Blake

1927 Paramount Book Blues Sheet Music Blind Lemon Jefferson

Claude Hopkins 1938 African American Jazz Orchestra Leader Stride Piano

Django Reinhardt

Louis Armstrong Poster,

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

SOUTHERN MUSICAL SCENE WATERCOLOR

HARLEM RENAISSANCE dancer

Rex Ingram- Photo Porgy & Bess Roles

African American School Photos -7

Race Records Catalog, Okeh-6

Race Records Catalog, Okeh -8.

Race Records Catalog, Okeh -5

Race Records Catalog, Okeh -4

Race Records Catalog, Okeh-3

Race Records Catalog, Okeh -2

Race Records Catalog, Okeh

1949 Mabel & Nell Russell – Jazz Piano Organ Duet

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

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

BLACK BROADWAY sheet music SELECTION from BLACKBIRDS of 1928

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 -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 -1

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

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

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

Handbill for The Fantabulous Rock n Roll Show of ’57

Jackie -Moms-Mabley Show~Vintage c1964

Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -2

Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -4

Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -5

Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -6

Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -7

Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -8

Mabley Show~Vintage c1964 -9

Mabley Show~Vintage c1964

Stepin Fetchit at Club Rialto

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

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

Brown Magazine V1 #4- 1954 -2

Brown Magazine V1 #4- 1954 -3

Brown Magazine V1 #4- 1954

MCM Ceramic Triangular Vase Musicians Jazz Age

THE HARLEM CHILDREN’S CHORUS – BLACK CHRISTMAS

EBONY SONG PARADE DEC 1956 -The Pilgrim Travellers

Wayne Wang Chinese American director –

Billy -Long-Tall- Mitchell Clovers Singer

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

Les Hite African American Jazz Musician Band Leader

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

Scott’s Dixie Musicians Grass Brand

African American Music Philadelphia 19th Century Composer

Ann Delorge Original Vintage Jazz Musician -American

RARE THE EVA JESSYE CHOIR – FLYER

William Sharp 1960 JAZZ American

Photo The Spiritual Lambs

Photo The Robins

Photo The Mills Brothers Paper Doll Film

Photo The Midnighters R&B Group

Photo The Jive Five

Photo The Heartbreakers

Photo The Four Vagabonds

Photo The Crystals Doo Wop

Photo Joe Morris Jazz Trumpeter

Negro Spirituals Chas H Pace Jubilee Singers

1917 Negro in American Drama 2

1921 Negro Genius in Greenwich Village

1923 Can the Negro serve the Drama Theatre Magazine

1923 Can the Negro serve the Drama- Theatre magazine

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

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

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

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

Sinful Tunes and Spirituals- Black Music to the Civil War

SOUTHERNERS sheet music WILL MARION COOK feat. ABBIE MITCHELL

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

1848 BLACK AMERICANA SHEET MUSIC DARK SETT

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

1895 Ethiopian Song Susie Do You Lub Me

1896 Black Americana Sheet Music Happy Days In Dixie

1901 Ragtime -GOING TO LIVE, ANYHOW by Shepard Edmonds

1904 Black Americana Sheet Music MY HONEY LOU by Chattaway

1913 THE HONEYMOON GLIDE –

Colored Aristocracy Cake-Walk Sheet Music 1899

Mood Indigo by Duke Ellington

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

July 1955 OUR WORLD Magazine Charlie Parker

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

EDDIE ROCHESTER ANDERSON & JACK BENNY –.

Gospel Quintet Songs – 1943 African American Songbook

Mary Kaye, You Don’t Know What Love Is

Glee Club Rehearsing a Song 1955…

Shirley Horn Loads of Love Jazz Vocal

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

Apollo Theatre Handbill Fats Waller Lucky Millinder jazz poster

Bessie Smith jazz poster – Frolic Theatre – Birmingham – 1926

Jazz Nightclub El Grotto Chicago IL 1950s

EDDIE ROCHESTER ANDERSON -Gone with the Wind – movie

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

EDDIE ROCHESTER ANDERSON & JACK BENNY–

COTTON BLOSSOM SINGERS, PINEY WOODS COUNTRY LIFE SCHOOL

Program 1952 Baptist Temple NYC Lucia Hawkins

1920S 30S Bertha Gold Vaudeville Dancers Singers -3

1920S- 30S Vaudeville Dancers Singers -2

Daniel Gelin Eleonora Rossi Drago during filming of Slavery

Ezekiel & The Flamingos Chicago Doo Wop

1907-09 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES SHEET MUSIC.

1924 Black Americana Spirituals Sheet Music Burleigh

SHEET MUSIC. Harry Brown African American singer

VTG 1917 Negro Spirituals Sheet Music -2

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

BLACK JAZZ composer CLARENCE WILLIAMS SHOUT SISTER SHOUT ~ 1930

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

Blue Grass Club -Cleveland OH

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

Lawrence Brown -violin

Mamie Smith and Jass Hounds

Men -Bar Juke Joint Counter Beer -1940s

Nashville TN African American Flamingo Room Club 1954 photo

Wingy Manone New York 1947

Earl Grant Nothin’ But The Blues

1951 Club Harlem Atlantic City

Esquire Lounge – Chicago 1960s

Gene McDaniels,

La Wanda Page- Comedian

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

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

AIDA OVERTON WALKER sheet music WHY ADAM SINNED from IN DAHOMEY

1938 All Black Movie Gang Wars Gladys Snyder

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

BLACK VAUDEVILLE and FILM star GEORGE DEWEY WASHINGTON sheet music 1924

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

BROADWAY BLACK JAZZ writer FATS WALLER Slightly Less Than Wonderful

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

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

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

VOL1 # 1 EBONY SONG PARADE NOV 1955

Jazz bassist Ernie Shepard

Jazz Pianist Benny Moten And His Orchestra -1926

Jazz pianist Joe Robichaux

Photo Lai Founs Acrobats – 1940s

Smith Singers 1952 African American Quartet Gospel Soul

Sonny’s Jazz Revellers formed in 1929

The jazz singer Al ‘Fats’ Edwards

1931 Galaxy Music Co. – Negro Spirituals

Color Magazine -May 1956 cover

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

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

1910 -I Feel Religion Comin’ On

SASSY BLACK BLONDE BURLESQUE DANCER -LATONYIA- ~ 1950s

CABIN IN THE SKY -HIRSHFELD ART LOBBY CARD

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

BERT WILLIAMS and GEORGE WALKER VOO DOO MAN ~ 1901

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

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

Harmony Serenaders Jazz Orchestra Streckfus steamers 1920s

Jim & Jack 1920s Vaudeville Step Dance Duo

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

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

African American Cabaret, Chicago – 1941

Al Hirschfeld ”Dreamgirls ” Jennifer Holliday Broadway

Al Hirschfeld ”Porgy and Bess 1942” Broadway

Al Hirschfeld – 1941 ”Slow Blues.”

AL HIRSCHFELD – Angella McQeen ”Ain’t Misbehavin”

Al Hirschfeld – Sammy Davis Jr.

Al Hirschfeld Charleston From Rhythm

Al Hirschfeld JOSEPHINE BAKER IN PARIS

Al Hirschfeld SAMMY DAVIS JR

Al Hirschfeld, Boogie-Woogie,

Al Hirschfeld, Jam Session

Al Hirschfeld, Scufflin’ In,

Al Hirschfeld, Solid Sender,

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

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

Ben Vereen – Al Hirschfeld – GRIND – Broadway

Avon-Long Carib Song – Broadway

Apollo Chorine by Hirschfeld

Clevant Derricks Al Hirschfeld -DREAMGIRLS – Broadway

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

Hirschfeld ”Charleston”

L. Scott Caldwell Al Hirschfeld – HOME – Broadway

Hirschfeld Cover ”Porgy and Bess” 1942 Todd Duncan

Hirschfeld ”Leslie Uggams”

Lena Horn–Hirschfeld

Leslie Uggams Al Hirschfeld – HALLELUJAH BABY

Leslie Uggams d Al Hirschfeld – ANYTHING GOES – Broadway

Sammy-Davis-Jr_ Broadway Anna Lucasta

Sidney Portier-Claudia ONeil – Raisin in the Sun Broadway

Todd-Duncan -Lost In The Stars Broadway

Vivian Reed Signed Al Hirschfeld – BUBBLING BROWN SUGAR

AFRICAN-AMERICAN songwriter

African Lament – 1931

24 Negro Melodies Op 59 by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

1936 Sheet Music CHLOE -Negro

Cotton Hollow Harmony song, 1918

Fix Me Jesus- Hall Johnson – African American

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

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

20 American Songs and Negro Spirituals 1938 -enhanced

Alexander’s Back From Dixie sheet music

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

1945 Let Us Break Bread Together – music sheet

1928 Unusual Negro Spirituals

1879 – Negro Dialect – songs

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

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

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

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

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

SHEET MUSIC THE MASK OF THE AFRICAN KING

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

TIMBUCTOO AN AFRICAN IDYL TWO STEP 1904

1848 THE DARK SETT

1918 Ragtime AT THE DIXIE MILITARY BALL

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

DIXIE CUPS – Sheet Music – People Say

Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State – book cover

Ragtime SHEET MUSIC POOH BAH BLACKVILLE TOWN

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

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

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

Jitterbug – Johnson

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

African American Handmade 5 String Banjo

1896 -Sheet Music- Happy Days In Dixie-

Junie Cobb & Annabelle – photo

Zanzibar Nights Jazz 1940

TURNER LAYTON- JAZZ

Swing dancing at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem NYC 1947

Swing dancing at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem New York 1947

Savoy Ballroom

Savoy Ballroom in Harlem, New York City, 1947

Roller skating rink of Savoy Ballroom. Chicago

Reginald Marsh Tuesday Night At The Savoy Ballroom – American

Keita Leila 1950 Black Burlesque

Harlem Follies 1949 Black Burlesque

Dancing At The Savoy Ballroom In Harlem NYC Circa 1947

Dancing at Savoy Ballroom, Harlem, 1947,

African Witchcraft dance at the Savoy Ballroom

WILL SHADE & Tub Bass

WILLIAM CLAXTON Jazz Guitarist

THE MILLS BROTHERS singers Jazz & Pop

REX INGRAM, Anna Lucasta (1958)

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

Harlem Follies 1949 Black Burlesque

Fisk Jubilee Singers, Annemarie Heinrich

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

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

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

JELLY ROLL MORTON sheet music SWEETHEART O’ MINE ~ 1926

THE ANGELS SANG THAT HAPPY MORN Negro Spiritual

1950 Musical Dolls – adv.

RAGTIME WHOLLY SMOKE Two-Step Cake Walk 1900

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

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

1878 Slavery Dance – magazine

Buddy Johnson Orchestra Billy Mackel Apollo Club Harlem 1939

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

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

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

Black composer LUCKEY ROBERTS – 1923 show SHARLEE

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

Black Empire 1934 Federal Theatre

Black Empire 1934 Federal Theatre Project -WPA

Black and White Revue 1934 Federal Theatre Project

Black & White Revue 1934 Vaudeville

Bird of Paradise 1934 Federal Theater Project

Big White Fog 1934 Federal Theatre Project

Bassa Moona 1934 Federal Theatre Project

Athletics, WPA Recreation Project

An Evening with Dunbar 1934 Federal Theatre

1936 WPA Federal Music Project of New York City

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

W.C. HANDY – St. Louis Blues

W.C. HANDY – INSCRIBED SHEET MUSIC

Ma Curly Headed Baby – song

I Want Yer Ma Honey – song

ORCHESTRA BIG BAND ON STAGE

Black composer -SHELTON BROOKS – COSEY RAG ~ 1911

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

BLACK composer MACEO PINKARD sheet music YOU SLAY ME ~ 1931

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

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

BLACK JAZZ CHARLES WARFIELD pub’d PERRY BRADFORD ~ 1923

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

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

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

EUBIE BLAKE – NOBLE SISSLE – CRADLE OF LOVE ~ 1919

Jazz El Grotto Supper Club Chicago IL Photo – 1940s

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

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

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

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

2 Sheets -Uncle Tom -Topsy -Eva Comic History

Clarence William’s

Jazz Pianist Tommy Flanagan – photo

JAZZ JOURNAL Trummy Young

AZZ JOURNAL Connie Kay

JAZZ JOURNAL 1959 George Lewis

JAZZ JOURNAL – MAY 1948 Joe Dananbourgh

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

1918 WW1 – GOOD BYE ALEXANDER

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

1894 military song LEADER OF DE COMPANY B

Men’s Gospel Singing Group -photo

1896- MA ONLIEST ONE- AN AFRICAN BALLAD

W.C. HANDY – MUSIC COVER 1942

THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT – book cover

Swing It 1934 Adelphi Theatre NYC Musical Comedy

SLAVE NARRATIVES From The Federal Writers’ Project 1936-38

Run Little Chillun 1934 Vintage Theater Federal

Processional 1934 Federal Theatre Project

Porgy – Federal Theatre Project – 1934

Missouri Slave Narratives

Macbeth 1934 Federal Theatre Project

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

CHIN TOY 1920 Whistle A Song

SMALLS PARADISE – Harlem

Jean DuBuffet New Orleans Jazz Band

SWING DAT HAMMER ‘ Chain-Gang Song -Black Composer

Cavana & Mason Shakespeare Outdone Songster

BLACK composer AL JOHNS ~ MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE

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

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

BLACK songwriter SPENCER WILLIAMS sheet music MISSISSIPPI BLUES Lucille Hegamin

BLACK composers CLARENCE WILLIAMS ~ 1917

Star TOM BROWN sheet music BLACK writers ALEX ROGERS Lemonier

BLACK songwriter TONY JACKSON sheet music SOME SWEET DAY ~ 1917

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

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

Cole Bros Circus 1940 Minstrel Band Side Show

JET Magazine May 13, 1954 cover Pamela Winters

1937 COTTON CLUB Program

1959 ‘Gayden Sisters’ – Chicago

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

United Negro College Fund 1952

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

COTTON CLUB sheet music SWINGTIME IN HONOLULU by DUKE ELLINGTON

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

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

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

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

BLACK JAZZ songwriter SPENCER WILLIAMS sheet music SUSIANNA ~ 1929

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

BLACK JAZZ writers EUBIE BLAKE & NOBLE SISSLE sheet music

C.J. FIVE Cotton Club

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

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

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

Unknown gospel quartet

The Sensational Nightingales – gospel

he Harmonizing Four – gospel

The Exciting Gospel-aires

Caesar Singles of Chicago

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

FRANCESCA TU – actress

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

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

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

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

African American Stereotype Marguerita Padula – white

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

African American Music Philadelphia 19th Century Composer -Grand March

COTTON BLOSSOM SINGERS, PINEY WOODS

James Weldon and J. Rosemond Johnson

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

Kari Kari fire eater African man circus performer

ROBERT GUILLAUME 1927 -2017

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

DUKE ELLINGTON s BLACK AND TAN FANTASY piano solo 1927

Dinah Crow – Emancipation Song

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1928 SONNY CLAY’S Idea Band

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

1941 BLACK revue BROWN SKIN GAL IN CALICO – DUKE ELLINGTON

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

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

Slave’s Lament

JAMES WELDON – J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON – songs

African American Men Costumes Trader Horn Movie

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

JIMMY SMITH TRIO

BIGGEST RHYTHM & BLUES SHOW OF ’54,

ART TATUM (ca. 1945) jazz pianist

ARNOLD STERLING album cover

1952 RHYTHM AND BLUES Music Magazine songs and dingers

1937 RARE CLUB PLANTATION -photo

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

1918 African American Choir – college

Richard Roundtree 1942 2023- actor photo

Morris Buchanan Photo actor 1923-2014

Hallelujah – 1929 all black movie stills —

Carolyn Byrd – actress

Blues & Rhythm Magazine- The Gospel Truth- ZuZu Bollin

Blues & Rhythm Magazine- The Gospel Truth- Tinny Kennedy

Blues & Rhythm Magazine- The Gospel Truth- Tabby Thomas

Blues & Rhythm Magazine -The Gospel Truth- Kenny Neal

Blues & Rhythm Magazine -The Gospel Truth -Larry Dale

Betty. Bridges 1921-2024 Actress – photo

Ann Weldon – 1933 2024 singer – photo

Winton Kelly 1931-1971

South African born American singer Miriam Makeba – photo

Keita Leila 1950 Black Burlesque

George Lewis Jazz Photo 1944

Freddie Keppard -Jazz – photo

LAFAYETTE Movie Theatre HARLEM NYC Night Marquee Photo 1931

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

New Orleans Jazz Players -Paul Shoppe American Mid Century

New Orleans Jazz Players -Paul Shoppe American Mid Century

CHICK WEBB JAZZ -PHOTO (c.1930s)

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

Walter Page 1900 – 1957 – Bass

Singer-dancer SHERMAN COATES sheet music insert 1909 vaudevil

BILL BOJANGLES ROBINSON in Vaudeville 1904 Scissors to Grind

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

JOSEPHINE BAKER s- VOLUPTUOSA pub’d PARIS ~ 1928

FASHION AND JAZZ – book cover

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

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

Color Magazine issued Dec. 1953,

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

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

BANDANA LAND insert WILL MARION COOK CHRIS SMITH ~ 1908

1890 Philadelphia PA QUINTET MUSICIAN BAND – photo.

1890 Philadelphia PA QUINTET MUSICIAN BAND – photo.

1957 Otis Rush First Texas Tour

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

1932 Eddie Johnson’s Crackerjacks Jazz Band

1930 George Morrison Orchestra Jazz Band

1929 Bennie Moten Band, Kansas City Jazz

1928 Walter Barnes and His Royal Creolians Jazz Band

1928 Troy Floyd Shadowland Orchestra Jazz Band

1928 Mills Blue Rhythm Band Jazz

1927 Chauncey Downs and His -Rinky Dinks- Jazz Band

1925 King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators Jazz Band

1923 Earl Walton Palais de Dance Orchestra Jazz Band

1920’s STEPIN FETCHIT PLUS PHOTO

1920’s Red Perkins and His Original Dixie Ramblers

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

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

Youth Wheeling Boots or Shoes Trade Card -enhanced

BLACK VAUDEVILLE performers THE KEMPS MYSTERIOUS RAG ~ 1911 -insert

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

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

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

BLACK composer CHRIS SMITH – SYNCOPATED PIANO ~ PIPING ROCK

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

BLACK composer – publisher WILL MARION COOK – 1904

1952 Olive Moorefield Making Up Role- Lolly- Broadway

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

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

APOLLO THEATRE -Harlem – NYC

Cats And The Fiddle – album cover

Jitterbug circa 1935.

Jitterbug to the Harry James Orchestra

Atlanta GA Print Article 1979 AJC Jazz Ike Isaacs Bass

JAZZ AT THE SMITHSONIAN ART POSTER BY ROMARE BEARDEN

Jazz Beat Magazine Percy Humphrey

Roy Lichtenstein-Aspen Winter Jazz Festival-1967

Moon Over Harlem – movie poster

1930s Studio Photo~- Showgirl or Dancer

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

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

Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948)

BRIGHT ROAD LOBBY CARD -2

He also played Negro League baseball and MLB. only reference

Flapper 1920’s Photo

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

c1900-1940 Photos

Blues & Rhythm, The Gospel Truth.

The Second Set, Jazz Poetry Anthology – book cover

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

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

Songwriter SPENCER WILLIAMS sheet music GEORGIA GIGOLO ~ 1929

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

Songsters, Sheet Music, Covers -2

Songsters, Sheet Music, Covers -1

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

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

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

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

BERT WILLIAMS – ZIEGFELD FOLLIES 1919 – BLACK songwriter ALEX ROGERS

Band Songsters, Sheet Music -3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ebony Magazine – December 1956 – Patti Austin – child star

Blues & Rhythm Magazine Mercy Dee Walton 1915 -1962

Edgewater Beach Hotel Chicago Jazz Club

Henry Threadgill, American jazz composer and musician.

Gatesmouth Moore

WALKIN’ ON AIR from 1931 revue FAST AND FURIOUS

JELLY ROLL MORTON she-SWEET SUBSTITUTE ~ 1938

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

FATS WALLER-BLACK RASPBERRY JAM ~ 1938

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BEALE STREET by W. C. HANDY ~ 1917

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

RCA Victor-Nipper -Ad With Black Americana Family

NEW ORLEANS JAZZ NATIONAL HISTORICAL Lower Mississippi Delta Songs

Louis Armstrong carried triumph in Brazaville 1956

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

Calloway Gare du Nord Paris France April 24 1934

c1950 R&B Photo~Sonny Thompson

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

The Etude Music Magazine August 1924

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Billy Ward & His Dominoes R&B Soul

African American History, Cinema, Theater Photo

Your Arms Too Short To Box With God- gospel musical

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

Sister Rosetta Tharpe – album cover

PHOTO OF THE GREENE SISTERS AND REVEREND S.A HENRY

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

Bro. Charli Storey – gospel – photo

he Record Changer- J Gene Sedwick . 1957

The Record Changer October 15 1942 – cover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Record Changer Feb 1945 magazine- -page

The Record Changer Feb 1945 magazine cover

The Record Changer August 1944 – cover

The Record Changer -June 1948 cover

RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 photo -4

RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 photo -4

RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 photo -2

RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 -photo 3

RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 -5 photo

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

RECORD CHANGER Magazine July-August 1953 – photo

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

DUKE ELLINGTON sheet music STEPPIN’ INTO SWING SOCIETY ~ 1938

DUKE ELLINGTON – SCATTIN’ AT THE KIT KAT – 1937

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

Clarice Taylor – actress – photo

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

Imamu Sukuma in Five on the Black Hand Side – photo

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

LOVEJOY, Il. HARLEM NITE CLUB-

WE ARE AMERICANS TOO by EUBIE BLAKE and ANDY RAZAF

Unusual Negro Spirituals – Gospel

Sounds From The Ancestors by Kenny Garrett album cover

MARTIN LUTHER KING tribute EUBIE BLAKE – NOBLE SISSLE

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

Fisk Univ. Jubilee Singers

Harlem Rhapsody –

Irving Sydney Jordan was born in New York in 1922,

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

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

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

Black Americana Palm Tavern Chicago

1848 BLACK AMERICANA SHEET MUSIC DARK SETT

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

copyright Magazines 1 & 2

The Unruly Voice- Rediscovering Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins book cover

THE GREEN PASTURES [1936] Photo

vintage NEGLECTED BLUES- BLACK songwriter SPENCER WILLIAMS ~ 1921

Hearts In Dixie Poster 1929 Old Movie Photo

Day Keene TOO BLACK FOR HEAVEN 1959 book cover

Chicago IL Mikado swingers to continue with WPA African American

Blues Pianist WILL EZELL

WOLVERINE BLUES by JELLY ROLL MORTON -SPIKES BROS ~ 1923

WALK THAT BROAD by TOM DELANEY pub CLARENCE WILLIAMS

STRUT YO’ PUDDY by SPENCER WILLIAMS ~ 1924

Lovin’ Blues Pace and Handy

JAZZ IT BLUES by TOM DELANEY feat. LUCILLE HEGAMIN

Generations -A Memoir by Lucille Clifton 1976 author

The Famous Hillman Brothers, African American Tap Dancers

All Black Southern Band

RHYTHM AND BLUES OCT 1963 Coleman Hawkins Jazz cover

Negro Digest July 1951 – Willie -The Lion- Smith

African American Movies &Music – Before 1950 -6