Josephine Baker purchases a ticket for the Negro Actors Guild 2nd Annual Benefit and Breakfast Dance. Written on verso: March 16, 1951. Josephine Baker purchasing the first ticket to the Negro Actors Guild 2nd Annual Benefit and Breakfast Dance (Savoy, April 6th) from Harold Jackman, Chairman of the Dance Committee, while looking on is Noble Sissle, President of the Guild.
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African American women, Portraits and people, African American arts, Music--Performance
Ethel Waters in costume for "As Thousands Cheer." Written on recto: To Loyd Jia[?]. Ethel 9/3/34. Written on verso: Ethel Waters in "As Thousands Cheer" 1934
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African American women, Portraits and people, Music--Performance
A portrait of Bessie Smith. Written on recto: Photo, 1923, by Edward Elcha, courtesy of Rudi Blesh. Bessie Smith in 1923, the year of her first record, which sold 780,000 copies in six months. It earned her only $125, but it established her as the leading blues singer. From BESSIE SMITH: EMPRESS OF THE BLUES (Schirmer Books/Frank Music, April 15).
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African American women, Portraits and people, African American arts, Music--Performance, Singers
![Ethel Waters in costume for "As Thousands Cheer." Written on recto: To Loyd Jia[?]. Ethel 9/3/34. Written on verso: Ethel Waters in "As Thousands Cheer" 1934](https://radar.auctr.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list_card_image/public/externals/9e5c1edc861dac7ed76bdd694daa8d22.jpg?itok=3qkE_tH4&pid=auc.034:0027&iic=true)
![A postcard of Ethel Waters. Written on recto: May you never [?] this from C[?]ul To Prince](https://radar.auctr.edu/sites/default/files/styles/list_card_image/public/externals/85533c3bc2599a819e7b98d9421f9753.jpg?itok=ib67q06o&pid=auc.034:0024&iic=true)
