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Bill Wharton

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Blues guitarist, singer, and cook Bill Wharton leans to the side and plays a resonator guitar that he holds neck straight up, while a pot boils on a...

Date Published
1989
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Blanche Williams and Sherman Sharpe, Jr. of the Harlequin Café

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Blanche Williams stands among the restaurant's tables with the chef of the Harlequin Café, 8047 Agnes, Detroit, Michigan (8045 Agnes). A wall...

Date Published
April-13-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Eighteen solders and a dog

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Eighteen African American soldiers wearing fatigues (one is wearing a chef's uniform) stand or squat outside of barracks with a small dog. C920 is...

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Sauce Boss

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Blues guitarist, vocalist, and chef Sauce Boss, laughs as he hands a bowl of food into a man's hand. He wears a chef's hat and stands by a large pot...

Date Published
1986
1990
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Showing off the catch

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Four unidentified men hold a bar with three fish on it on the deck of a sailing ship. A chef stands to the right of the men. A bell is beside his head...

Date Published
1891 to 1900
Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection

Ted Malone steals a taste

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Ted Malone takes a taste from a ladle as the white male chef laughs and cooks in the kitchen of the Five Flies restaurant in Amsterdam.

Date Published
1941
1950
Member of
Ted Malone Collection

Thad Tucker with a group of maids

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An group of six African American women in uniform, on the Marland Estate exterior in Ponca City, Oklahoma, stand in a semi-circle around Thad Tucker...

Date Published
1921
1930
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

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