Onjenae
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it can be a picture of a 1970s magazine,actress ,tv show etc as long as its vintage. THe picture can be in color or b&w i dont want any pictures taken after 1990
here are some of my favorite vintage photographs
Lena Horne with cadets at the Tuskegee Airbase in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1945.
Margaret Tynes by Carl Van Vechten, 1959
Mary Lou Harris snapped in a long tweed suit with polka dot blouse (circa 1930s) by the marvelous photography legend Charles “Teenie” Harris in Pittsburgh, PA.
Actress Jane White in a 1941 photograph by Carl Van Vechten. A 1944 graduate of Smith College, White was the daughter of Civil Rights icon Walter White. Ms. White began her career on Broadway in 1945 when Paul Robeson helped her get her first role as the lead in Lillian Smith’s “Strange Fruit,” a story about a doomed interracial love affair. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt praised Ms. White’s work for its “restraint and beauty.”
Like Ellen Holly, she was frustrated with the limitations others placed on her as an actress due to her light complexion. In 1959, Ms. White originated the role of Queen Aggravain (to a young Carol Burnett’s princess) in “Once Upon a Mattress.” For this role, Ms. White was asked to lighten her complexion, lest she “confuse” the audience with her “Mediterranean” looks. She would go on to establish a solid reputation as an actress in Shakespearean and classical roles from the 1960’s through the 1990’s. In 1979, her autobiographical one-woman show, “Jane White, Who?…”, was well received. Ms. White was also a cabaret singer and did work in film and television, including a small part in the film, “Beloved.”
In 1992, Ms. White wrote “Life As An Actress: A Mystery Story,” an autobiographical essay for Revealing Women’s Life Stories: Papers from the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College. Ms.White died of cancer on July 24, 2011 in New York City at the age of 88.
Ballroom dancers Margot Webb and Harold Norton. They performed as “Norton and Margot” in the 1930s and 1940s
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Screenshot from The Great Gatsby. Early 1970's.
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Onjenae
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Model Adrienne Fidelin with her lover, the iconic photographer Man Ray in the 1930s.
From The New York Times:
The story begins in Paris around 1936, when a young dancer from Guadeloupe named Adrienne Fidelin met Man Ray. He was 46 and, judging from pictures of her at the time, she was in her mid-20s. An enchanting, high-spirited beauty, Fidelin — who was known as Ady — became Man Ray’s lover, model and muse. The exact circumstances of their meeting, as with many details of her life, remain elusive. What is known is that she was dancing with a French company with ties to Guadeloupe and that the two were inseparable. Fidelin met Man Ray at the height of the Surrealist movement and was quickly embraced by his close-knit circle of artist and writer friends.
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Photo from Dr. Martin Luther King’s memorial service, 1968, displayed at the Muhammad Ali Center, Louisville, KY.
The Supremes. |
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Tuskegee Airmen Col. Benjamin O. Davis and Edward C. Gleed in Ramitelli, Italy in March 1945. Col. Davis was the Commanding Officer of the 332nd Fighter Group. Mr. Gleed was Group Operations Officer. P-5/D, “Creamer’s Dream,” is in the background. Photo by Toni Frissell.__________________ |
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Marva Louis snapped by Charles “Teenie” Harris at a benefit fashion show in Pittsburgh in April 1938. |
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Aretha Franklin in her dressing room at Newark Symphony Hall in Newark, New Jersey in 1969. |
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Josephine Baker the first black woman to become an international superstar |
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Cab Calloway photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933.
Pearl Bailey in her dressing room, 1946. Photo by Paul S. Henderson, a photographer for the Richmond Afro-American newspaper. |
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Marva Louis, a stenographer turned model and singer and the first wife of boxing legend Joe Louis (they married twice) stepping into a Duesenberg roadster in Harlem’s Sugar Hill on June 18, 1936. Hours later, her husband would lose to Max Schmeling at Yankee Stadium in one of the most famous bouts in boxing history. Langston Hughes described the reaction he witnessed after Louis suffered the only knockout during the prime of his career:
I walked down Seventh Avenue and saw grown men weeping like children, and women sitting in the curbs with their head in their hands. All across the country that night when the news came that Joe was knocked out, people cried. He would go on to defeat Schmeling in a much-anticipated rematch in 1938. |
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Mable Lee, “Queen of the Soundies” on the March 1947 cover of Ebony. Ms. Lee is 90 years old today and still performing |
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Lena Horne photographed by Philippe Halsman |
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Martin Luther King Jr. with his mother, Alberta Williams King and his wife Coretta Scott King at Harlem Hospital in 1958. Dr. King was recovering from a stab wound after an attack by a disturbed woman.
Coretta Scott King leaving church in November 1964.
Lena Horne and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a party Ms. Horne gave in Dr. King’s honor in New York in 1963. Photo by Steve Schapiro.
Harry Belafonte and Martin Luther King, Jr. having a good laugh together. |
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Screenshot from The Great Gatsby. Early 1970's. |
wasnt the great gatsby a best selling novel  lol the name sounds familair lol but i dont remember it |
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one of the greatest black poets of all time Langston Hughes in the 1920s.
Lena Horne and Hilda Simms.
Hilda Simms really should have been more famous, but her film career was cut short after being blacklisted in the 1950s.
Della Reese in the 1950s. |
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Josephine Baker arrives in Germany, Sep. 10, 1928
Baker performs her new song 'Black Magic' at New York's Josephine Baker Cabaret, wearing a dress specially design for this song by Paris fashion designer Pierre Balmain, which is also named after the song. |
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