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Lee Moates and Tonita Malau show their winning dance style during a Lindy contest on the block-long floor of Harlem's Savoy Ballroom on April 24, 1953.
Photo: Hans Von Nolde for the Associated Press via the Deseret News
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citizenscreen · 5 months
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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Jesse Owens with the Cotton Club dancers in 1936. The legends were such good friends that Owens gave his Olympic Gold medal to Robinson a few years after the Olympics.
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Lloyd Yearwood, Photograph of a drag club in Harlem, 1960s
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semioticapocalypse · 5 months
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Helen Levitt. Harlem Boys with a black cat. New York. 1940
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House of Muscle - Hamidiu Banor by Baldovino Barani x FACTORY Fanzine  
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Aaron Siskind, Harlem, New York, 1937,
Gelatin silver print, ,
8 3/4 × 8 1/8" (22.2 × 20.8 cm)
Library of Congress
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Ella Fitzgerald with the Chick Webb Orchestra at the Savoy, 1938. Webb is at the far left, smiling up at Ella.
Photo: IMDB
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agelessphotography · 3 months
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Million Youth March, Raised Fists (Harlem, New York), Ming Smith, 1998
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A girl act from the Harlem in Havana revue, 1940s, photographed by Garbo photography studio in Chicago.
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swizziee · 1 year
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Mase. (1997)
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blackfolksintime · 2 months
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Harlem Street Scenes and Queensbridge Projects Construction 1939
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Vintage Wedding Portraits by James Van Der Zee
Untitled (Wedding Party) (1923)
Wedding Portrait (1923)
Wedding Day, Harlem (1926)
Bride and Groom (1927)
Beautiful Bride (c. 1930)
Love and Marriage (1932)
Wedding Couple (1934)
Formal Ties (1937)
Untitled (1938)
A Bride (1939)
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steven-myself · 2 years
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House of Muscle - Hamidiu Banor by Baldovino Barani x FACTORY Fanzine
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