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African American musicians
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African Americans
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United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.)
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Writers' Program (New York, N.Y.)
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United States. Works Progress Administration
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Gellert, Lawrence, 1898-1979
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Spiller, Isabele Taliferro, 1888-1974
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Writers' Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection
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Portrait collection
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Wallach Division Picture Collection
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Music and some highly musical people
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William N. and Isabele T. Spiller photograph collection
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
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Lee and Shepard; C. T. Dillingham
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M.V. Lynk Publishing House
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Conciertos Westerman
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J.N. Simms
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Schomburg Photographs and Prints Division
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Photo of Stormé DeLarverie in…
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The sound of Harlem, [Booklet]
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Band Manager
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American
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James Reese Europe and the Cl…
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African
American
composers
Clef Club Orchestra
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American
composers
Europe's String Octett
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Stormé DeLarverié
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American
entertainers
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Jazz in Harlem
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Jimmy Smith, jazz organist, a…
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Earl Hines and his big band p…
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Book of days
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Studio portrait of Fredi Wash…
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Lawrence Brown
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Althea Gibson (third from lef…
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American
Tennis Association
Afro-
American
Hymn; Music by W. C. Handy
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Stormé DeLarverié (center), s…
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American
entertainers
Duke Ellington at the piano
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American
jazz
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Anna Madah Hyers ; Emma Louis…
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Portrait of arranger, conduct…
Negro Actors Guild gathering,…
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Female pianist
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"We the Children," National M…
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Famous drummers of yesteryear…
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Studio portrait of Chick Webb
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Colonial Playground, Federal …
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Group portrait of vaudeville
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, with
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Americans
in the performing arts
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String players
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Arthur Thompson, staff conduc…
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Sousaphone player
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American
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Portrait of pianist and compo…
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American
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Portrait of pianist and compo…
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American
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Duke Ellington and His Orches…
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American
jazz
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Duke Ellington at a piano
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African
American
jazz
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Erskine Hawkins
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African
American
musicians
Fletcher Henderson, bandleader
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Earl "Fatha" Hines backstage …
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Europe's String Octett
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Ada "Bricktop" Smith, owner o…
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…), with
musician
Fats Water (3rd
Hazel Scott
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African
American
jazz
musicians
At the foot of Dessaline's st…
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African
American
composers
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
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African
American
jazz
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Upon arrival at the Tokyo air…
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African
American
jazz
musicians
Singer and bandleader Cab Cal…
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African
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singers
Ma Rainey's Jazz Band
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African
American
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Duke Ellington and his Orches…
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American
jazz
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Duke Ellington (right) with c…
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Scene from motion picture "Ca…
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Candid portrait of singer and…
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Cab Calloway and his Orchestr…
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Billie Holiday with Louis Arm…
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