Black and white photograph of Katherine Dunham performing with the Katherine Dunham Dancers in Cabin in the Sky, 1941, which she co-choreographed with George Balanchine.
Black and white photograph by Vera Elkan of actor Paul Robeson posing next to his sculpture by Fredda Brilliant, wife of Herbert Marshall, in London, 1939.
Photocopied black and white photograph image of Ira Aldridge portraying Othello. Printed on the image: "R. Mason & Co."; "From Thomas Fall Photographer to the Queen"; "48 HIGH STREET, NOTTING HILL GAT[E]". Stamped on the image: "SCHOMBURG…
Letter handwritten by Arthur Davison Ficke on his personal letterhead and signed along with Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gladys Brown, and Eugen Boissevain to John Howard Lawson, complimenting him on his Broadway show Processional, dated January 21,…
Design by Mordecai Gorelik for John Howard Lawson's Processional. The modernist four-act play dramatizes the plight of striking coal miners under martial law and celebrates the working class with jazz music. First produced in 1925, it found greater…