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.
Headshot of singer Carrie Smith looking forward and smiling. Smith is wearing a floral print blouse and hoop earrings.
Dinah Washington singing into a microphone on stage with unidentified musicians in the background. Washington is wearing a pinstripe suit jacket and skirt.
Publicity photo of Julia Lee sitting at a piano with a Capitol Records microphone hanging overhead. Lee is looking to the side and smiling with one arm resting on the piano.
Headshot of Julia Lee looking to the side and smiling. Lee is wearing a patterned dress.
Publicity photo of Julia Lee looking forward and smiling next to a Capitol Records microphone. Lee is wearing a patterned dress.
Angled headshot of Julia Lee looking forward and smiling next to a Capitol Records microphone. Lee is wearing a patterned dress.
Julia Lee playing piano in a studio and smiling while looking to the side. Several Capitol Records microphones hang into the piano.
Lena Horne sitting on a stool and laughing. Horne is wearing a dark shirt and skirt, holding a purse on her lap.
Headshot of Maxine Sullivan looking forward and smiling. Sullivan is wearing a light colored dress.
Newest importation of impresario Barney Josephson of Café Society, who has discovered so many stars, is attractive chanteuse Moune de Rivel [Cécile Jean-Louis Baghio'o], who sings plaintive songs in...
Publicity still from film "New Orleans" featuring Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday (center) with Red Callender (bass), Zutty Singleton (drums), Charlie Beale (piano), Kid Ory (trombone), Bud Scott...
Headshot of Thelma Carpenter facing forward and looking up while smiling. Carpenter is wearing a neutral colored dress.
Thelma Carpenter standing behind an NBC microphone and smiling. Carpenter is wearing a light colored jacket and her hair is styled with a bouffant.
Thelma Carpenter photographed from the side seated on stool next to an NBC microphone. Carpenter is wearing a light colored jacket and skirt and her hair is styled with a bouffant.
