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African American singers
African American entertainers
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African American actors
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African Americans
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African American motion picture actors and actresses
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Davis, Ellabelle, 1907-1960
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Williams, Bert, 1874-1922
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Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
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Sterling, Dorothy, 1913-2008
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Sterling, Philip, 1907-1989
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Portrait collection
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Ellabelle Davis photograph collection
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Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams collection of sound recordings
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Music and some highly musical people
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Lee and Shepard; C. T. Dillingham
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A. Jenkins
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A.D. Worthington
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Schomburg Photographs and Prints Division
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
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Schomburg Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
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