Janet MacLeod

Professional model Janet MacLeod wearing veiled hat designed by Lilly Dache. New York, NY, 1937, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt

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Marion McCall Converse

New York circa 1925. "McCall." Marion McCall Converse, the future ex-wife of Converse M. Converse, a society couple whose split came in a much-publicized divorce.

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Army Air Forces

"Jackie Wilson (left) and Ray Robinson have fought two bitterly contested ring encounters. Now it's Sgt. Wilson and Pvt. Robinson in the same Aviation Squadron at Mitchel Field, New York, and they stand shoulder to shoulder--ready for a fight to the death on the Axis." 1943. 208-PU-214B-5.

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Vaudeville Actresses

The girls in the Cotton Club’s Review, NYC c.1933, (Vaudeville Gals, Ethel Waters, in the center)

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UNIA Parade

UNIA Parade, organized in Harlem, 1924; [One of the slogans carried in the parade; Harlem, corner of the 135th Street and Lenox Avenue. The Harlem Renaissance is regarded as the major and first cultural movement of African Americans which took place in a period between 1917 and 1935 throughout the USA. 

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History

"April 24, 1920. New York City. "Overalls Circus Parade."

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Annie Oakley

Portrait of Annie Oakley, (Little Sure Shot.), with rifle.
Annie Oakley (August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Moses, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter.

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Harriet Hoctor

Harriet Hoctor, (September 25, 1905 — June 9, 1977) was a ballerina, dancer, actress and instructor from Hoosick Falls, New York. Composer George Gershwin composed a symphonic orchestral piece specifically for Hoctor in the film Shall We Dance.

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R.H. Macy & Company

New York circa 1908. "R.H. Macy & Co., Herald Square." Broadway at 34th Street, Notice Lucio's Pearls and a couple of the electric hansom cabs.

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Vintage Newspaper

Woman Invents Dimple Machine, DIMPLES are now made to order! These aids to beauty can be produced as the result of a new invention by Isabella Gilbert of Rochester, N. Y. The device consists of a face-fitting spring carrying two tiny knobs which press into the cheeks. c. Oct, 1936

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Chick Webb

William Henry Webb, usually known as Chick Webb (February 10, 1905 – June 16, 1939) was an American jazz and swing music drummer as well as a band leader. Chick Webb moved to New York around 1925 and from January 1927 led a group at the Savoy Ballroom that later became one of the outstanding bands of the swing period. Webb, a diminutive hunchback, was universally admired by drummers for his forceful sense of swing, accurate technique, control of dynamics, and imaginative breaks and fills

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Vintage Photo

The Savoy Ballroom was located between 140th and 141st Streets on Lenox Avenue Harlem, New York City. The Savoy was a popular dance venue from the late 1920s to the 1950s and many dances such as Lindy Hop became famous here.It was known downtown as the “Home of Happy Feet” but uptown, in Harlem, as “the Track”. Unlike the ‘whites only’ policy of the Cotton Club, the Savoy Ballroom was integrated where white and black Americans danced together.

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Abby Rockefeller

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (October 26, 1874 – April 5, 1948) was a prominent American socialite and philanthropist and the second-generation matriarch of the renowned Rockefeller family. Referred to as the "woman in the family", she was especially noteworthy for being the driving force behind the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art, on 53rd Street in New York, in November 1929. She was the daughter of Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich and Abby Pearce Chapman. Abby Greene Aldrich married John Davison Rockefeller Jr., son of John Davison Rockefeller Sr. and Laura C. Spelman, on 9 October 1901.

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Janet Collins

Janet Collins the first Black Prima ballerina at The Metropolitan Opera in her dressing room on the night of her debut, November 11, 1951. Ms. Collins, a cousin of Carmen De Lavallade, performed Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida” that night. She died in 2003 at the age of 86.

Janet Collins (March 7, 1917 - May 28, 2003), was a ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She performed on Broadway, in films, and appeared frequently on television. She grew up in Los Angeles, California. She auditioned for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo when she was only 15. She was very talented, but she was not accepted because she was black. They told her she would have to dance in a white face. She said no thanks. She had a chance to dance at the 92nd Street YMHA in February 1948. In 1951 she became the first African American prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera in NY, NY.

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Adelaide Hall

Adelaide Hall (1929)

Adelaide Louise Hall (20 October 1901 – 7 November 1993) Adelaide was born in Brooklyn, New York to Elizabeth and Arthur William Hall and was taught to sing by her father. She made her show business debut in a number of black musical shows in New York, including “Shuffle Along,” “Chocolate Kiddies,” “Desires Of 1927,” and “Black Birds of 1928.”

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Barbara Loden

Barbara Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980) was an American film and stage actress and film director. Splendor in the Grass. A one-time pin-up beauty and magazine story model, Barbara Loden studied acting in New York in the early 50s and was on the Broadway boards within the decade.

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Vintage Photo

The American Radiator Building (since renamed to the American Standard Building) is a landmark skyscraper located at 40 West 40th Street, in midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was conceived by the architects John Howells and Raymond Hood in 1924 and built for the American Radiator and Standard
Sanitary Company. The structural form is based on Eliel Saarinen's unbuilt competition entry for Chicago Tribune building.

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