Promotional photo for NPR Jazz Alive! Radio show featuring Alberta Hunter singing into microphone. Hunter has one arm raised and is looking to the side and smiling.
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 Brenda Lee Eager leaning forward with her elbows on a table and holding her head in her hands. Eager is wearing a large flower in her hair.
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 Dionne Warwick looking forward and smiling while holding her hands up to her cheeks. Warwick is wearing a white blouse.
Ella Fitzgerald facing forward and smiling, wearing a black dress and a pearl necklace.
Headshot of Esther Williams looking forward with a neutral expression. Williams is wearing a ruffled dress.
Promotional photo for NPR Jazz Alive! Radio show featuring Helen Humes singing into a microphone. Humes is grinning and wearing a patterned dress.
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.
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.
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.
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 photo of Nancy Wilson looking forward and smiling while resting her head on her folded arms. Wilson is wearing a fur coat.
Headshot of Patrice Rushen looking forward and smiling. Rushen is wearing beads and chopsticks in her hair.
Pearl Bailey wearing a patterned dress singing on stage with one arm extended and the other holding a microphone,
