Carl Van Vechten

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Carl Van Vechten
Queer Designs for Living in My America (formerly HomoNormativity & The American Ideal): Carl Van Vechten
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Leontyne Price :: 1953. Carl Van Vechten ::
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Photographer, Carl Van Vechten.
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Arthur Mitchell. Carl Van Vechten.
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Alan Meadows, 1940 photos by Carl Van Vechten
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Digital Collections at the Beinecke Library
Dancer Hugh Laing, 1940, photo by Carl Van Vechten via deviatesinc
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Billie Holiday Through the Lens of Carl Van Vechten
Take The "A" Train: Billie Holiday Through the Lens of Carl Van Vechten
Carl Van Vechten Harlem 03 Althea Gibson, Jazz Photography, Afro Puffs, Nan Goldin, New Yorker Magazine
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Carl Van Vechten Harlem 03
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Carl Van Vechten
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Harry Belefonte | Black Hollywood Series
Harry Belefonte | Black Hollywood Series Harold George Belafonte, Jr. (born March 1, 1927) is an American musician, actor and social activist. One of the most successful Jamaican musicians in history, he was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style in the 1950s. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing the "Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O".
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Lil Green, 1942
Singer Lil Green, as photographed by Carl Van Vechten in 1942. Lillian "Lil" Green (December 22, 1919 – April 14, 1954) was an American blues singer and songwriter. She was among the leading female rhythm and blues singers of the 1940s, possessed with an ability to bring power to ordinary material and compose superior songs of her own.
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Jazz Singer Joyce Bryant by Carl Van Vechten.1953 + how amazing is her hair!
Joyce Bryant was a 50's jazz and cabaret singer known as the Bronze Blonde Bombshell --madamenoire.com has more info about her tight backless dresses and her amazing silver hair! Black Pin Up, Black Pins, We Are The World, Diana Ross, American Woman
Joyce Bryant: The Black Marilyn Monroe
Joyce Bryant was a 50's jazz and cabaret singer known as the Bronze Blonde Bombshell --madamenoire.com has more info about her tight backless dresses and her amazing silver hair!