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Billie Holiday

Image

Signed portrait of Billie Holiday.

Date Published
1931
1940
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington

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Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday sitting and looking over music. Holiday is wearing a jacket with a shoulder patch and a white hair wrap. Ellington...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday at microphone

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Billie Holiday holding a Blue network microphone and smiling with unidentified musicians in the background. Holiday is wearing a shirt with BH...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday at microphone

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Billie Holiday holding a Blue network microphone and smiling with unidentified musician in the background. Holiday is wearing a jacket with a shoulder...

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday commemorative plaque at the Swing Street Dedication

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Buck Clayton holding an plaque commemorating Billie Holiday, with Billy Taylor standing beside him behind the microphone on the stage at the Swing...

Date Published
June-24-1979
June-28-1979
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Billie Holiday performing

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Billie Holiday performing with an unidentified band. Holiday is singing with her eyes closed and head tilted back, wearing a floral print dress.

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday singing

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Billie Holiday photographed from the side singing and looking forward. Holiday is wearing a jacket with a shoulder patch and a white hair wrap.

Date Published
1945
1950
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday, Dave Dexter, Al Jarvis, an unidentified man, and Duke Ellington

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Billie Holiday, Dave Dexter, Al Jarvis, an unidentified man, and Duke Ellington sitting at a studio table with KFW microphones. Holiday is wearing a...

Date Published
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Dave Dexter

Image

Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Dave Dexter looking over music on the piano. Ellington is sitting at the piano, wearing a pinstripe suit. Holiday...

Date Published
1941
1945
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday

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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet over Billie Holiday's shoulder in a publicity photo shoot in Hollywood, California. Armstrong is wearing a suit and...

Date Published
1946
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Publicity still from "New Orleans"

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Publicity still from film "New Orleans" featuring Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday (center) with Red Callender (bass), Zutty Singleton (drums)...

Date Published
1947
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection
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  • Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959

Member of

  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (9)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (11)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (11)
  • Gelatin silver prints (11)
  • Group portraits (7)
  • Snapshots (7)
  • Publicity photographs (2)
  • Film stills (1)
  • (-) Portrait photographs (11)

Time Periods

  • 1941-1950 (9)

Subjects

  • African American women jazz singers (7)
  • African American jazz musicians (6)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (2)
  • African American women (1)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Jazz musicians (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Pianists (1)
  • Swing (Music) (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (3)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (2)
  • Dexter, Dave (2)
  • Callender, Red (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Jarvis, Al, 1910-1970 (1)
  • Scott, Bud, 1890-1949 (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)
  • Taylor, Billy, 1921-2010 (1)
  • (-) Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 (11)

Events

  • Swing Street Dedication (1979 : New York, N.Y.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1945 (7)
  • 1950 (5)
  • 1931 (1)
  • 1940 (1)
  • 1941 (1)
  • 1946 (1)
  • 1947 (1)
  • 1979-06-24 (1)
  • 1979-06-28 (1)

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