Raquel Meller

Raquel Meller, born Francisca Marqués López, was an Aragonese cuplé and tonadilla singer, and diseuse. She was an international star in the 1920s and 1930s, appearing in several films and touring Europe and the Americas.  Artists such as Charlie Chaplin and Sarah Bernhart considered Raquel Meller to have been genius. She performed extensively in the United States under contract for the Schuberts, and performances broke box office records at the time.

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Jewel and Harold Walker

Jewel and Harold Walker, 1916 October 10,   6 and 5 years old, pick 20 to 25 pounds of cotton a day, Comanche County, Oklahoma, Hine, Lewis Wickes,, 1874-1940, photographer.

Source: flickr | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington,D.C. 20540 USA | Photographs from the records of the National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) 

The Tuskegee Airmen

Group of men playing cards. They are members of the famous "Tuskegee Airmen". This was a special air force fighter wing in World War II made up of black men.

Vintage Photo

Max Baer Jr., Nancy Kulp and Sharon Tate   in The Beverly Hillbillies , The Giant Jackrabbit episode. 

c. 1963

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Lupe Vélez

Lupe Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 14, 1944) Lupe Vélez was a Mexican film actress. Vélez began her career in Mexico as a dancer, before moving to the U.S. where she worked in vaudeville. She was seen by Fanny Brice who promoted her, and Vélez soon entered films, making her first appearance in 1924.  By the end of the decade she had progressed to leading roles.

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Uday Shankar

Uday Shankar (8 December 1900 – 26 September 1977) (Bengali: উদয় শংকর), the pioneer of modern dance in India, and a world renowned Indian dancer and choreographer, was most known for adapting Western theatrical techniques to traditional Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, thus laying the roots of modern Indian dance, which he later popularized in India, Europe, and the United States in 1920s and 1930s and effectively placed Indian dance on the world map.

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Vintage Photo

Arleigh Albert Burke (19 Oct 1901 - 1 Jan 1996) was born in Boulder, Colorado, United States. On 8 Jun 1923, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, United States and was commissioned ensign in the United States Navy.

Source: ww2db | added by: C. Peter Chen | United States Navy Naval History and Heritage Command | United States Navy Naval Historical Center

Charles Wiggins

Charles Wiggins, WINNER in 1926 -- In the 1920s, a group of black sportsmen created the nation's single largest sporting event ever held by and for African Americans: the Gold and Glory Sweepstakes, a series of 100-mile auto racing events held through the U.S. from 1924-1936. - vintage

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Erwin Blumenfeld

Erwin Blumenfeld, Grace Kelly, 1952

Erwin Blumefeld was born in Berlin in 1897 and died in Rome in 1969. He lived in Holland and France, then in the US, where he became one of the most popular and influential photographers of the 20th century. His great fashion photographs bear the influence of Dadaism from the 1920s and 1930s. He worked for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Look, Cosmopolitan and Life.

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Ernest Just

 Ernest Everett Just (August 14, 1883 – October 27, 1941) was a pioneering African American biologist,
academic and science writer. Just's primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms.

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