Eva Slater

Eva Slater posed in a brief costume with striped skirt and matching head dress.(ca. 1860-1910)  
 photograph by Webster & Albee.                                                                                                                                                                                            

NYPL | New York (City) Museum of Modern Art photographs

Billie and Patsy Irwin

Billie and Patsy Irwin,  Sixteen year old twin dancers, Posing aboard the Cunard? 'The Blue Kitten' at the Gaiety Theatre, London" (192-?)

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts / Jerome Robbins Dance Division 

James Doyle and Harland Dixon

James Doyle and Harland Dixon  in 'Jack o' lantern' 1917

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts | Jerome Robbins Dance Division |   photograph by White Studio (New York, N.Y.)                            

Mlle LeZetora

Mlle LeZetora, “Colored Lady Athlete - Heavy Weight Act,” circa 1900. 

vintageblackglamour | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library

Ruth St. Denis

 Ruth St. Denis (January 20, 1879 – July 21, 1968) US dancer, teacher, and choreographer who is considered one of the pioneering influences in American modern dance.

staticflickr | answers | The New York Public Library. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.| Denishawn Collection

Shuffle Along

Lyricist Noble Sissle and cast members from the musical "Shuffle Along," ca. 1921.   

             Source: digitalgallery | Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Photographs and Prints Division           

Cheyenne Chiefs

Cheyenne Chiefs, members of the Southern Cheyenne Delegation of 1909, The lure of the frontier : a story of race conflict

    Source: digitalgallery.nypl | courtesy of the Bureau of American Ethnology, United States National Museum, Washington | Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 

Private James C. Lee

 Private James C. Lee sitting at a teletype machine in the telegraph room at Camp Edwards, Kentucky, September 2, 1948.

 Source: digitalgallery.nypl | The New York Public Library