Mack & Mack

Mack & Mack, that Clever, Classy, Captivating Couple 

Source: beinecke.library | Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | Bonnie and Semoura Clark black vaudeville photographs and ephemera
1909-1958

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.

Source: library.yale.edu | Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | J. Wood

Chorus Line

photograph of chorus line

Source: library.yale.edu | Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library | Clark, Bonnie | 1909-1958

Jane Bolin

Jane Matilda Bolin LL.B (April 11, 1908 – January 8, 2007) was first black woman in the United States to be appointed to a judgeship, was only thirty-one years old when Mayor Fiorello La Guardia chose her, in 1939, for a ten-year term on the Domestic Relations Court of the City of New York. A Wellesley College graduate, Bolin was also the first black woman to receive a law degree from Yale University.

Source: blackhistory | .npg.si