MICKEY & SYLVIA SHEET MUSIC LOVE IS STRANGE (1957)
Ma Rainey and Band c1920s – Mother of the Blues
PHILLY JOE JONES RENOWNED DRUMMER
Wes Montgomery with Gibson Guitar c1960s
The American Negro Theatre book cover
STRIVERS ROW – A BLACK HARLEM CLASSIC SATIRE
1940’s SOUVENIR PHOTO DALLAS ROSE ROOM AFRICAN AMERICAN CLUB HALL ST
BLACK AMERICANA SHEET MUSIC ~ CA. 1897-1910
AFRICAN-AMERICAN]. Buck and Bubbles
1963 Earl Robinson Folk Singer Composer
Margie Joseph Black Americana R&B Soul Gospel Singer
Fisk Jubilee Gospel Singers 1910
Rose Murphy (1913 – 1989) was an American jazz pianist and singer,
Beulah Elizabeth Richardson (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000), known professionally as Beah Richards and Bea Richards, was an American actress of stage, screen, and television.
The-Modern Jazz-Quartet from Dizzy Gillespies-rhythm-section.j
Diana Ross and The Supremes -I Hear A Symphony- Sheet Music art cover
EDNA THOMAS Negro Spirituals 1926
Michael D. Roberts is an American actor. b.1947
3 CHOCOLATES
The Midwest Jubilaires Gospel Group
The Williams Trio
Unknown Band
LOUNELL MORGAN TRIO
SUNSET GOSPEL SINGERS Danville VA
THALMUS RASULALA VONETTA McGEE in Blacula
The Dixie Hummingbirds
The Midwest Jubilaires Gospel Group
St. Louis Blues
No Time For Romance
Musical Theater Actress Emma L. Hyers in Costume c1880s –
Life Goes On -movie
It Happened in Harlem
Island in the Sun lAFRICAN-AMERICAN. CINEMA.) ALLEN SAALBURG. Archive of set designs for -The Green Pastures.-obby card. 1957.
Betrayal Poster, 1948
Negro Ensemble Company – Douglas Turner Ward, Artistic Director
film stars Ruby Dee, Powell Lindsay and -Henri Woode and His Six Hepcats-. eatures Anna Mae Winburn and -The International Sweethearts of Rhythm
AFRICAN-AMERICAN. CINEMA.) ALLEN SAALBURG. Archive of set designs for -The Green Pastures.-
Black Herman’s ‘s Secrets of Magic-Mystery & Legerdermain, 1938
Vivian Carter, Founder of Vee Jay Records
Smiling Hate Movie Poster, c. 1924 features William Clayton as Warren Headley,
Negro-documentary-all-black-cast-film-We’ve Come a Long Way
Odetta 1930-2008
Sheet Music 1910 Play That Barber Shop Chord Bert Williams
Roosevelt -Rosey- Grier is an American actor, singer, Protestant minister, and former professional football player.
Kyle Johnson (1951) is an American actor, most notable for his performance in the 1969 film The Learning Tree.
JIM BROWN RICHARD ELKINS AFRICAN AMERICAN
Music Ad 1954
John Beasley 79 Obituary New York Times Actor Rudy Everwood Negro History
Dick Gregory – Classic Comedian, Civil Rights Activist
ALFRE WOODARD -in-Holiday Heart-
Halls Of Anger ’70 CALVIN LOCKHART PLAYING BASKETBALL AFRICAN AMERICAN
Anna’s Sin ’61 AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTRESS ANNA VITA MARISA BENEDETTI
Tyrone Davis Clarence Carter R&B Blues Soul Concert Poster New Orleans
LOUIS SMITH JAZZ TRUMPETER RPPC AFRICAN AMERICAN BLUE NOTE MEMPHIS
Take a Giant Step 1953 play)
Joe Liggins 1951
Sonny Thompson 1955
Louisiana Amazon Guard Revue (1901)
1881 ‘AFRICAINE ~ The African Woman~ Giacomo Meyerbeer opera
DIRTY GERTIE FROM HARLEM LOBBY CARD SET 1946 AFRICAN AMERICAN CAST 2
DIRTY GERTIE FROM HARLEM LOBBY CARD SET 1946 AFRICAN AMERICAN CAST
Zee Wilson. Actress Interplay. Zee Wilson is known for Interplay (1970) and The Outsider (1968).
1943 Carmen Jones Theatre Program Souvenir Book African Black Musical Play
Club Artist African American Mattie Gaither 40s 50s
Actor Roscoe Lee Browne
Big Band Age – book
1940s RoActor Roscoe Lee Browneller Skating Rink Sticker Black Americana Olympia WA
W.D. Palmer Atlantic City Club Harem book Cover Art
The Wright Saxophone Orchestra
The Piano Player Wood
NELLY de CARVI TAYLOR African American Man DANCER Cabaret CAKEWALK
African American Actor DON JUAN Dancer CABARET France
1900 -THE THREE MUSICAL BUTLERS- THREE AFRICAN AMERICAN SAXOPHONE PLAYERS
Hazel Scott Concert 1947
Gospel Pamphlet -2
Gospel Pamphlet
Lowell Fulson-1950s
The Love Notes -1950s.
US Promotional Books
The Delroys -1950s
The-Eldoraldos-1950s
Hal Singer-1950s
The Shirelles 1950’s
BLACK AMERICANA photos WW2 ERA 1940s big band guitar sax bass SINGERS
James Russell Drawing Art -New Orleans Jazz Band Of 1914-
African Americans In Films 1905-1947 Excerpts
African Americans In Films 1905-1947- 2
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CAFE ZANZIBAR NYC
Jet 1961~ Coltrane
Great Negro Dance Bands -2
Porgy & Bess
Great Negro Dance Bands –
Jet 1956~ Broadway
Eartha Kitt
Black Theater
Benefit of Mr. A.J. Leavitt The Champion Banjo Soloist of America. Philadelphia, 1860.
1973 Billy Taylor Jazz Mobile
1945 Jazz -3
1945 Jazz -2
1945 Jazz
1944 ad APOLLO THEATER Harlem PRAIRIE VIEW BAND
1944 ad APOLLO THEATER Harlem ELLA FITZGERALD
1937 Book Of Black American Music. Rolling Along In Song. J. Rosamond Johnson
African American Bar Club-Cincinnati Chicago Cotton Club
The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington
Silvia Lord singer Jet Mag.1962
Melody Masters Wurlitzer Church c1940s
Jet Mag. 1962 Sammy Davis Jr. Chubby Checker
Ronny Clanton b.1946 Actor
November 15, 1939-2020 Yaphet Koto
African American Chorus Line Dancers c1930s
100 Songs From The Cotton Fields Words, Music 1884
Jet Magazine AUGUST 1 1957 Movie Ad
Black Drama Story of the American Negro in the Theatre Loften Mitchell 1967
essie Maple BLACK WOMAN FILMAKER 1937 – 2023 obituary NY Times
Gwendolyn Killebrew (1939-2021) Black American Met. Opera
Neal FOUNDER – AMERICAN NEGRO THEATER
Blues People- Negro Music in White America- Leroi Jones
African American Music signed William Grant Still
962 Black Jazz musicians offended by US State Dept music tour
1953 -CRAZYLEGS- MOVIE POSTER NFL – LOS ANGELES RAMS
1950 movie- No Way Out-3
1950 movie- No Way Out-3
1950 movie- No Way Out-
1950 movie- No Way Out-4 Poitier, and three of Ruby Dee, Amanda Randolph and Mildred Smith.
1941 AUBREY PANKEY Black American baritone booking ad before becoming expat
1940s Tom Melvin NEGRO actor Black
1940s Black American Big Band Group -The Three Cleffs
MARCHING ON! (1943) Vintage original lobby card for African American WWII film
My Coal Black Lady – Sheet Music1896
NEGRO-BLACK SPIRITUALS DOWN BY THE RIVER SIDE
NEGRO-BLACK SPIRITUALS O PRECIOUS LORD
NEGRO-BLACK SPIRITUALS TALK ABOUT JESUS
Notice- Stop Don’t Buy Negro Records Vintage Poster
Silent Film Negro Motion Picture The Green-Eyed Monster Movie Flyer
Harlem Jamboree Showgirls c1930s
Jessie Maple BLACK WOMAN FILMAKER 1937 – 2023 obituary NY Times
JONATHAN PINKETT American, born 1949 Mudlife 1, November 8, 2021 – 3
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100 Songs From The Cotton Fields Words, Music 1884 Americana
Carlisle & Baker Sheet Music Zelda 1906 Ragtime Colored Aristocrats
1940s AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC GROUP THE CALYPSO BOYS
Pair of African American History Black Gold – movie
1951 OUR WORLD Magazine – Mr. Black Magic- Billy Daniels
Singing-Star-
Harlem Jamboree Showgirls c1930s
Twigg Celestial Gospel Singers
THE COLORED MAJOR BLACK AMERICANA MUSIC SHEET
DUSKY STEVEDORE BLACK AMERICANA MUSIC SHEET
BLACK AMERICANA MUSIC SHEET
1956 Blues Jazz TN Black Americana Concert Poster
1944 Bertha Fitzhugh Baker Recital Program
Roy Hamilton
Rose Hardaway Born in Arkansas in 1931 shake dancer in ‘elite Black entertainment’,
BLACK AMERICANA MUSIC SHEET Handle With Care ’64 AFRICAN AMERICAN GEORGIA CARR
The Green Pastures Early Black African American 1930 Columbia Theatre Play
Lords of the Forest movie1958
Marissa Benedetti Actress
NATIVE SON Original Movie
EUSEBIA COSME-The Pawnbroker
Bunny Evans model singer
Bert Williams c1910 African American Black Vaudeville
Arthur Stewart Farmer was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
Anna’s Sin ’61 AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTOR BEN JOHNSON
Franz Huld Cake Walk series c. 1900
Negro Magician, Mid Century
Black American Music Sheet
Famous Negro Music Makers By Langston Hughes 1955
78RPM HOT PIANO Jelly Roll Morton Duke Ellington Fats Waller
Apollo Theater Marquee c1940s – NYC
Cab Calloway and Band in a Train Sleeper Car c1930s
Southland Spirituals Rodeheaver 1946
He was by far the best-selling Black recording artist before 1920. In 1918, the New York Dramatic Mirror called Williams -one of the great comedians of the world.-
1960 Try to Remember Sheet Music The Fantasticks Harry Belafonte
Mildred Joanne Smith actress, singer, magazine editor. b1921-2015
Jet Magazine Oct 12 1961 Cover Features Oscar Brown Jr. Vi Velasco & Lonnie Sattin
ACTOR GORDON HEATH EMPEROR JONES AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSICIAN b.1918-1991
Our World Magazine January 1953 Wyonnie Harris
The Jazz Record Magazine # 1 Feb 1943 Kaiser Marshall
FLORIDA CREOLS African American CAKE-WALK Miss BROUWN
Louis-Jordan-and-His-Tympany-5-1950
Raven Wilkinson Dancer
Ebony Magazine March 1962 -Leslie Uggams-
James Van der Zee Harlem Dancer
Juanita hall & Southern Seranaders 1940s African American Tulsa OK Down Beat Jazz Music Club
Tan Magazine April 1953 Cardboard Cover Advertisement The Peters Sisters
c.1925 Jimmy Powell and His 10 Harlem Steppers Jazz
Tan Magazine March 1953 Sarah Vaughan
Vintage 1940s African American Tulsa OK Down Beat Jazz Music Club
1957 Bill Doggett musician
1949 Intruder In The Dust Juano Hernández Black Americana
Flip Wilson Black Vaudeville 1960 Apollo Harlem
Negro Courier Magazine Section Janet Colluns January 5 1952
NEGRO DIGEST
1926 Photographs Struttin Sam From Alabam Colored Negro Musical Margaret Jackson
CLARA WARD & Her Gospel Singers~1962
COLOR Magazine Cover Louis Armstrong battles Communists Radio Free America Aug 1949
Jan 15 1953 Blondell Cooper Showgirl
January 13, 1955 First Las Vegas Negro Chorus Line
Mabel Mercer Showgirl
Thomas Fletcher b, 1873 – , 1954) was an African-American vaudeville entertainer, actor, and writer.
WPA Jazz
1954 unused W.C. Handy personal Christmas card
The Miraculous Kittens -Harlem
1943 THE SOUTHERNAIRES
Bill Mackel l guitar
Spirit Of Memphis Quartette Memphis Tennessee
WRIGHT SAXOPHONE ORCHESTRA
Early 20th C African American Folk Art – Jazz Musician Ensemble
c.1945 African American Bessie Dudley Jazz Tap Dancer
The Two Sweethearts singing group
DON REDMAN SIGNED PHOTO 1930s African American Jazz Great
East Coast Top Hits 1950’s’s
Coast To Coast Top groups
Odetta and Langston Huhes 1959
Our World Magazine
The Harlemaires 40s
OUR WORLD September 1951 3
1947 Extremely Rare Eva Jessye Brochure The Famous Eva Jessye Choir
Bernice Bland Busey – songwriter
Jitterbugs llI,dance,instruments,color,African Americans,William H Johnson,1942
Jookin – Vol 6 .2
,First Black School ad,Prudence Crandall, Canterbury CT
Jookin – Vol 7
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Jookin Vol. 1 -Black Rock N Roll Pounders
6-Count Swing Lindy Hop Basics
Harlem Rennaisance Dance
Swing Dance
Lindy 10
Lindy 9
Lindy 8
Lindy 7
Lindy 6
Lindy 5
Jookin
Jookin’
Jookin’ Vol 12 2
Jookin’ Vol 12 2
Jookin’ Vol 11
Jookin’ Vol 11 2
Jookin’ Vol 10
Jookin’ Vol 10 2
Jookin’ The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African-American Culture
Jookin’ 8
Jookin’ 8 2
Jookin – Vol 6
jitterbug 12
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Jitterbug 8
Jitterbug 9
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Jitterbug 6
Jitterbug 5
Jitterbug 4
James Johnson Charleston
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Lindy Hop
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Jitterbug 2
Charlerston 1
1930s African American Dance o Costume Dancers
THE MIDWEST JUBILAIRES ST. Louis Missouri
Loumell Morgan Trio
Etta Moten Barrett vocalist
Dee Cee’s Dynamic Duo Herb Fame & Francine Day Jet magazine
Althea Dean Actress
Playboy Jazz Festival 1950’s Jet Mag.
Mary Stafford 1920s Scintillating Colored Stars Columbia Records Firmament
1920s Scintillating Colored Stars Columbia Records Firmament
1956 COLOR Magazine
1923 NORMAN FILM CO. AFRICAN-AMERICAN BLACK MOVIE FILM BROCHURE
Undereground anti-lynching 78RPM Ben Shahn Cover
THE CATACOMBS By William Demby
Save A Little Dram For Me 1920 Bert Williams Cover Albert Alex Smith Prohibition
MAYA HENDERSON
Jazz by African American Artist Eli Kince
BLACK JAZZ BAND ANTIQUE PHOTO BRADFORD ON SAX STRINGER ON PIANO BOWSER ON DRUMS
Ella Mae Actress
Tap dancer ,Albert Smith,1920
1948 AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTOR REX INGRAM
ORIGINAL FLYER FOR BIG BENEFIT CONTEST
Carnegie Hall 1952
1954 Concert
The-First-American-Negro-Ballet-1937-1 (1)
Katherine Dunham Ballet Negre 1931.
Freddie Johnson and His Harlemites
Django 1934
1930s, UNKNOWN AFRICAN AMERICAN SWING BAND
1950 orig photo musician negro DJ Apollo Theater emcee Herman Am
Harlem Revue Royal American Shows 1950s
Alfred Statler -1960 Geoffrey Holder Dancing
African American, South, plays violin, white patrons ,New York night club,1942
African American Cabaret, South Side Chicago – 1941
Swingin’ on Central Avenue – African American Jazz in Los Angeles
40s LOVELY AFRICAN AMERICAN GLAMOUR BEAUTY
1930 Plays Pageants Life Of The Negro
BLACK AMERICANA – 1930s DANCE TRIO THE CHOCOLATEERS
AFRICAN AMERICAN ~ ACTRESS CLAUDIA MCNEAL
1930s HARLEM THEATRE – DANCE ACT ‘THE THREE STEP-SONS’
1949 Harlem Follies
1949 Harlem Follies 2
Lyric and Legend Idabelle Yeiser HCDJ 1947 SIGNED African American Poet
AFRICAN AMERICAN OPERA STAR VERA LITTLE CONTRALTO
1944 Marion Jackson Downs Stars at College she graduated from,SHC
TOBA TOURING ACT ‘BRONZE MANNIKINS 1930’s – 50’s’
ROCK N’ ROLL PIONEER MANHATTAN PAUL 1940s ‘HARLEM GONE PARIS’ FLYER
Manhattan Pauls 2
BLACK THEATRE UNIDENTIFIED MALE DANCER
“What’s Behind The NAACP 1956
GO DOWN, MOSES – CELEBRATING THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN SPIRITUAL
Burlesque Hostess Showgirl 1938 Rare Inter Racial Photo
BRENDA STARR Black Burlesque Ebony 8×10 Vaudeville 1960
Creole Belles Music Sheet
1957 Photograph – La Raine Meeres – Professional Dancer – Showgirl
Dunes, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dunes, Las Vegas, Nevada
Black Musician Winifred Atwell Flirtation Waltz R.Heywood
Black Americana sheet music collection THE LADY WITH THE AUBURN HAIR
1914 African American female sheet music CAPTAIN BETTY-
Wins Swiss Opera Competition Reri Grist 1960
Marian Anderson 13 Honor PhD. and other awards
Oscar Brown Muician Velasco & Sattin singers
Sally Blair TV Singer
Maria Cole Singer 1956
JET Magazine January 13 1955 Carrie Adams First Negro Chorus Girl Las Vegas
Barbara Prestwedge 1956 TV Quiz Show Winner
1955 Lynne Thompson Future for Negroes in
1956 Rep. Cora Brown Senator
1957 Jean Davis New Face In Hollywood
1954 Mauri Lynn Hollywood Mood Singer
1953 Ruth Brown Negro Millionaires Club
1953 Mattiwilda Dobbs Opera Star
Erskine Hawkins – Trumpet Player & Big Band Leader c1940s
Hank Ballard of The Midnighters
CECIL LAYNE
Rare! Our World (Negro) Magazine Dec 1955 Lovely Hill on cover actress
Cab Calloway
Ruth Ellington James
1930s African American Dance Photo
Charlotte Wesley Holloman (March 24, 1922 – July 30, 2015) was an American soprano singer.
The South African Kaffir Choir, composed of singers recruited from Africa and performing in traditional dress, began touring America in 1894
ROY DECARAVA Autograph African American Jazz
Oscar Micheaux Barton County Golden anni memorial mailer
Jean-Idelle
Homesick James April 30, 1910 – December 13, 2006 was an American blues musician known for his mastery of the slide guitar. He worked with his cousin, Elmore James, and with Sonny Boy Williamson
ILLINOIS JACQUET AMERICAN JAZZ TENOR SAXOPHONIST NY
Iola Leroy
JAZZ AGE BLACK STAGE DIVA FLORENCE MILLS
Harry Thacker Burleigh,1866-1949,Baritone,African American Classical Composer
FISK JUBILEE SINGERS
1937 VINTAGE MENU for THE HARLEM UPROAR HOUSE, DANCER ON COVER, NY JAZZ CLUB
Nichelle Gainer Swing Harpist 1940’s
Shuffle Along Musical Theatre during Harlem Renaissance
1930s BLACK JAZZ BAND AND ‘SHAKE DANCER’
Natalie Oguara
Miss-Topsy
Katherine McDonald Wimp b. 1920 Duke Ellington singer
Helene Stanley 1951
African American Bobbe Caston Singer -Louis Armstrong
Dolly Sisters
Ethel-Moses actress Black Jean Harlow. Michaux Pictures
1955-67 Ashtray Phil Giles Flamingo Club Black Americana Idlewild Michigan
OSCAR MICHEAUX AFRICAN AMERICAN MOVIE DIRECTOR
Oscar Michaux Book
JET Magazine July 18 1957 Carolle Drake
SHEILA GUYSE African American singer actress Broadway Race Films
Untamed 1955 Paul Thompson
1938 Antique Your Favorite Negro Spirituals Songbook
Elwood Smith actor
Harlem Revue Royal American Shows 1950s 2
Harlem Revue Royal American Shows 1950s 3
Harlem Revue Royal American Shows 1950s 5
Ina Ray Hutton All-Female Band Leader 1930s-1940s Black American
1947 Singer Todd Duncan Touring England
1940s NEGRO Colored 59 Club The Hot Spot Harbor Point Hotel & Grill Utica NY
Dooly Wilson Casablanca
1935 Miller’s 12 Piece African American Orchestra Live Show
1950s AMOS MILBURN, PIANO & VOCALS, ALADDIN RECORDS,
1950s BIG JOHN GREER & HAL ‘CORNBREAD’ SINGER,
1950s CHICAGO BLUES WIZARDS, CHESS RECORDS,
1950s DANNY OVERBEA, VOCALS & GUITAR, CHECKER RECORDS
1950s JOHNNY MOORE & MARI JONES, MODERN RECORDS,
1950s LARRY DARNELL, VOCALIST, OKEH RECORDS,
1950s LITTLE DONNA HIGHTOWER, VOCALIST, DECCA RECORDS
1950s LITTLE SYLVIA, HOT IN HARLEM, VOCALIST JUBILEE RECORD
1950s LULA REED & SONNY THOMPSON, KING RECORDS,
1950s LYNN HOPE, TENOR SAX, ALADDIN RECORDS
1950s MARIE ADAMS, VOCALIST, PEACOCK RECORDS,
1950s PAUL MONDAY, VOCALS & PIANO, PEACOCK RECORDS,
1950s THE DU DROPPERS, VOCAL QUINTET RCA VICTOR RECORDS
1950s THE SERENADERS, VOCAL QUINTET, RED ROBIN RECORDS
