Billie Holiday holding a Blue network microphone and smiling with unidentified musicians in the background. Holiday is wearing a shirt with BH embroidered on the collar and a white hair wrap.
Billie Holiday holding a Blue network microphone and smiling with unidentified musician in the background. Holiday is wearing a jacket with a shoulder patch and a white hair wrap.
Billie Holiday performing with an unidentified band. Holiday is singing with her eyes closed and head tilted back, wearing a floral print dress.
Billie Holiday photographed from the side singing and looking forward. Holiday is wearing a jacket with a shoulder patch and a white hair wrap.
Dinah Washington singing into a microphone on stage with unidentified musicians in the background. Washington is wearing a pinstripe suit jacket and skirt.
Ella Fitzgerald facing forward and smiling, wearing a black dress and a pearl necklace.
Ivy Anderson leaning on a piano looking at music and Leon Rene playing the piano while smiling during a rehearsal in a studio. An NBC microphone hangs from above.
Julia Lee's gravestone, inscribed "Mother, Julia Lee, 1903-1958", located in Highland Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri.
Lena Horne sitting on a stool and laughing. Horne is wearing a dark shirt and skirt, holding a purse on her lap.
Pearl Bailey wearing a patterned dress singing on stage with one arm extended and the other holding a microphone,
