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African American entertainers
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African American singers
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African Americans in the performing arts
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Blackface entertainers
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African American actors
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Williams, Bert, 1874-1922
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Johnson, Helen A
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Sterling, Dorothy, 1913-2008
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Sterling, Philip, 1907-1989
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Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
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Portrait collection
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Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection
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Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams collection of sound recordings
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American popular songs
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United States
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New York (State)
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New York
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Photographs
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Portraits
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Theatrical World Pub. Co
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Conciertos Westerman
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Austin Jenkins Co
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Howley, Haviland & Co
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M.V. Lynk Publishing House
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Schomburg Photographs and Prints Division
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
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A Quartette which gave good
entertainment
topic:
African
American
soldiers
… of
entertainer
Josephine Baker
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African
Americans
Ada "Bricktop" Smith,
entertainer
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African
American
businesspeople
Aida Overton Walker
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African
American
women singers
Aida Overton Walker
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African
American
women singers
Aida Overton Walker
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African
American
women singers
Alexander Rogers (left), Aida…
topic:
African
American
entertainers
m
All coons look alike to me
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Treasures of the
American
Performing Arts
k
Arthur Bell interviews Lena H…
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Tracks 1-8.
African
American
singer, actress
Bert Williams
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African
American
actors
Bert Williams
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African
Americans
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Bert Williams and Leon Errol …
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African
American
actors
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Bert Williams in his rooster …
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African
American
actors
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Black Herman's Easy pocket tr…
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African
American
entertainers
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Black Herman's secrets of mag…
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African
American
entertainers
C.W. Parker Amusement Company…
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African
American
entertainers
Camilla Williams, Brilliant Y…
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African
American
musicians
Candid shot of actors Flourno…
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African
American
actors
Casper Holstein
entertaining
guests during
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African
American
businesspeople
Chorus girls and other perfor…
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African
Americans
Composers Bob Cole, James Wel…
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African
American
composers
Concert handbill depicting so…
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African
American
musicians
Costumed female impersonator …
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African
American
entertainers
Crowd outside the Lafayette T…
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African
Americans
Dance troupe that includes Ma…
note:
Fortune, Mae, active 1920s:
American
Dancer
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African
American
entertainers
Dashin' Dinah from Carolina p…
topic:
African
Americans
in the performing arts
Dewey "Pigmeat" Markham, come…
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African
Americans
in the performing arts
Dorothy Maynor on Teatro Lux …
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African
American
musicians
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Dorothy Paul, buxom cabaret
entertainer
who
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African
Americans
m
Earl "Snakehips" Tucker
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African
American
dancers
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Eartha Kitt teaching a dance …
Entertaining
convalescent
American
soldiers
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African
American
soldiers
Ernest Hogan, circa 1901.
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African
American
entertainers
Ethel Waters ; "America's for…
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African
Americans
in the performing arts
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Famous drummers of yesteryear…
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African
American
entertainers
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Female impersonator from the …
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African
American
entertainers
Florence Mills
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African
American
entertainers
Flournoy Miller, Josephine Ba…
abstract:
Entertainers
Flournoy Miller, Josephine
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Fredi Washington Bell and Hug…
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African
American
actresses
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Fredi Washington, far right, …
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African
American
actresses
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Fredi Washington, James Ligh…
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African
American
actresses
Full-length publicity photogr…
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African
American
entertainers
George Craft
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African
American
entertainers
George Walker as the Zulu chi…
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African
American
entertainers
m
Group portrait of beauty cont…
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Handstamp for
entertainment
writer Floyd G
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Group portrait of vaudeville …
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African
American
entertainers
Group portrait of vaudeville …
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African
Americans
in the performing arts
Group portrait showing singer…
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African
American
entertainers
m
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Entertainment
and Dance
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African
American
fire fighters