Flournoy Miller, Josephine Baker, Noble Sissle and Ivan Harold Browning
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Item data
Title
Flournoy Miller, Josephine Baker, Noble Sissle and Ivan Harold Browning
Collection
Portrait collection
Noble Sissle portrait collection
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1945 - 1946
Library Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Shelf locator: Sc Photo Sissle, Noble
Subjects
Sissle, Noble, 1889-1975
Miller, Flournoy E., 1886-1971
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975
Browning, Ivan Harold, 1891-1978
United Service Organizations (U.S.)
African American entertainers
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American, [Indian, etc.]
Battle, Edgar Wm. (Edgar William)
Genres
Notes
Content: Original bears hand stamp on verso, photo credit on recto, and attached photo caption crediting USO - Camp Shows, Inc.
Content: Additional title from photograph caption (not shown) as supplied by USO, where Ivan Harold Browning was misidentified as Edgar Battles.
Physical Description
Gelatin silver prints
Extent: 18 x 19 cm ; black and white
Abstract
Entertainers Flournoy Miller, Josephine Baker, Noble Sissle and Edgar Battles [i.e. Ivan Harold Browning], from the original New York cast of "Shuffle Along," meeting in Brussels, Belgium, where Sissle was performing a USO Camp Show production of the play for U.S. servicemen, between 1945 and 1946
Identifiers
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b16819138
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b11527582
Photo Order: 54460
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 341e1ca0-c28e-0132-f7e3-58d385a7bbd0
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© United Service Organizations
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Flournoy Miller, Josephine Baker, Noble Sissle and Ivan Harold Browning" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1945 - 1946. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/341e1ca0-c28e-0132-f7e3-58d385a7bbd0
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1945 - 1946). Flournoy Miller, Josephine Baker, Noble Sissle and Ivan Harold Browning Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/341e1ca0-c28e-0132-f7e3-58d385a7bbd0
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Flournoy Miller, Josephine Baker, Noble Sissle and Ivan Harold Browning" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/341e1ca0-c28e-0132-f7e3-58d385a7bbd0
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