EVB2933542:
African American man seated and holding banjo. c. 1911 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933542
African American man seated and holding banjo. c. 1911
EVB2933543:
Leopold Auer (1845-1930), Hungarian-American violinist and teacher of Mischa Elman and Jascha Heifetz. c. 1918 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933543
Leopold Auer (1845-1930), Hungarian-American violinist and teacher of Mischa Elman and Jascha Heifetz. c. 1918
EVB2933549:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) in portrait by Carl Jaeger / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933549
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) in portrait by Carl Jaeger
EVB2933557:
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) reading in a New York City restaurant. c. 1915 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933557
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) reading in a New York City restaurant. c. 1915
EVB2933561:
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), with his wife, the former Dorothy Park Benjamin (1893-1955), and their baby daughter, Gloria. 1919 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933561
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), with his wife, the former Dorothy Park Benjamin (1893-1955), and their baby daughter, Gloria. 1919
EVB2933565:
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), the great Italian tenor, in 1910 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933565
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921), the great Italian tenor, in 1910
EVB2933575:
Fromental Halevy (1799-1862), French composer, best known for his elaborate grand opera, THE JEWESS (1835). He was also the father-in-law of George Bizet / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933575
Fromental Halevy (1799-1862), French composer, best known for his elaborate grand opera, THE JEWESS (1835). He was also the father-in-law of George Bizet
EVB2933580:
Paul Desmond (1924-1977), born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer. He composed the jazz classic, TAKE FIVE. 1954 photo by Carl Van Vechten, Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964) / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933580
Paul Desmond (1924-1977), born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer. He composed the jazz classic, TAKE FIVE. 1954 photo by Carl Van Vechten
Vechten, Carl Van (1880-1964)
EVB2933593:
Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), Lithuanian-born American virtuoso violinist in his early career. He left Russia in 1917 and became an American citizen in 1925. became an American citizen in 1925 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933593
Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987), Lithuanian-born American virtuoso violinist in his early career. He left Russia in 1917 and became an American citizen in 1925. became an American citizen in 1925
EVB2933596:
Josef Hofmann (1876-1957), child prodigy, toured with United States at age eleven. 1887 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933596
Josef Hofmann (1876-1957), child prodigy, toured with United States at age eleven. 1887
EVB2933597:
Popular 19th century print showing an African American man playing the fiddle as white family dances. The sentimental scene shows three generation family at home, including an elderly female at right / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933597
Popular 19th century print showing an African American man playing the fiddle as white family dances. The sentimental scene shows three generation family at home, including an elderly female at right
EVB2933598:
Francis Jane Crosby (1820-1915) was one of the best known women of her time, celebrated as the foremost writer of Methodist hymns. She was born blind and composed over 8000 hymns. 1906 portrait / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933598
Francis Jane Crosby (1820-1915) was one of the best known women of her time, celebrated as the foremost writer of Methodist hymns. She was born blind and composed over 8000 hymns. 1906 portrait
EVB2933615:
Nellie Melba (1859-1931) among the top turn of the century opera stars in the role of Marguerite in Gounod's FAUST, 1896 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933615
Nellie Melba (1859-1931) among the top turn of the century opera stars in the role of Marguerite in Gounod's FAUST, 1896
EVB2933616:
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), German opera composer of many very successful works for French opera / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933616
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864), German opera composer of many very successful works for French opera
EVB2933619:
Primrose and West's BIG MINSTRELS appealed to their audiences' social aspirations by offering refined and high class entertainment, promoting their new ideas in the terpsichorean art and melo-phrase dancing, and their All White cast. 1897 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933619
Primrose and West's BIG MINSTRELS appealed to their audiences' social aspirations by offering refined and high class entertainment, promoting their new ideas in the terpsichorean art and melo-phrase dancing, and their All White cast. 1897
EVB2933622:
Al. G. Field Greater Minstrels, Fun's Famous Fellows, 1907 (poster) / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933622
Al. G. Field Greater Minstrels, Fun's Famous Fellows, 1907 (poster)
EVB2933629:
The Brooklyn Academy of Music during opening concert on January 15, 1861 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933629
The Brooklyn Academy of Music during opening concert on January 15, 1861
EVT2932934:
Marilyn Monroe and her new husband, playwright Arthur Miller leave her New York for London in 1956, for her to film THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVT2932934
Marilyn Monroe and her new husband, playwright Arthur Miller leave her New York for London in 1956, for her to film THE PRINCE AND THE SHOWGIRL
EVB2932936:
Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) Irish playwright of realist plays concerning urban poverty, politics and revolution. His most highly regarded plays are SHAWDOW OF A GUNMAN (1923), JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK (1924), and THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS (1926) / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2932936
Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) Irish playwright of realist plays concerning urban poverty, politics and revolution. His most highly regarded plays are SHAWDOW OF A GUNMAN (1923), JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK (1924), and THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS (1926)
EVB2932958:
Max Eastman (1883-1969) American poet, and political radical, published two extremist magazines, THE MASSES and LIBERATOR. Eastman, stands by a portrait of himself painted by his wife, Russian born Eliena Krylenko / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2932958
Max Eastman (1883-1969) American poet, and political radical, published two extremist magazines, THE MASSES and LIBERATOR. Eastman, stands by a portrait of himself painted by his wife, Russian born Eliena Krylenko
EVB2932965:
Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet reading in 1941 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2932965
Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poet reading in 1941
Ogden Nash (1902-1971) humorous , irreverent American poet. 1931
EVB2932982:
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) English poet of THE FAERIE QUEENE, published in twelve books starting in 1590. Spenser was highly regarded during his life and after, and is buried near Chaucer in Westminster Abbey / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2932982
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) English poet of THE FAERIE QUEENE, published in twelve books starting in 1590. Spenser was highly regarded during his life and after, and is buried near Chaucer in Westminster Abbey
EVB2932984:
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) Italian poet wrote the epic GERUSALEMME LIBERATA (Jerusalem Liberated), 1581, about the First Crusade and the European conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2932984
Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) Italian poet wrote the epic GERUSALEMME LIBERATA (Jerusalem Liberated), 1581, about the First Crusade and the European conquest of Jerusalem in 1099
EVB2932992:
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), English Renaissance poet. 19th century engraving from Holbein painting / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2932992
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542), English Renaissance poet. 19th century engraving from Holbein painting
EVB2932997:
Byron Price (1891-1981) director of Censorship for the United States during World War II, entering White House, 1945 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2932997
Byron Price (1891-1981) director of Censorship for the United States during World War II, entering White House, 1945
EVB2933001:
Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965), photographed upon her arrival in New York for the premier of CARMEN JONES the performance for which she was nominated for the best actress Academy Award. 1954 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933001
Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965), photographed upon her arrival in New York for the premier of CARMEN JONES the performance for which she was nominated for the best actress Academy Award. 1954
EVB2933006:
Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965), dances at nightclub in Las Vegas in 1955. Halle Berry portrayed Dandridge in INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE, 1999 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933006
Dorothy Dandridge (1922-1965), dances at nightclub in Las Vegas in 1955. Halle Berry portrayed Dandridge in INTRODUCING DOROTHY DANDRIDGE, 1999
EVB2933009:
Mary Martin (1913-1990) and Director Jerome Robbins (1918-1998), flying onstage in rehearsal for a 1956 PETER PAN Television production / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933009
Mary Martin (1913-1990) and Director Jerome Robbins (1918-1998), flying onstage in rehearsal for a 1956 PETER PAN Television production
EVB2933012:
Bill Robinson (1878-1949), also known as Bojangles, with his wife Fannie in 1933 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933012
Bill Robinson (1878-1949), also known as Bojangles, with his wife Fannie in 1933
EVB2933016:
Bill Robinson (1878-1949), also known as Bojangles, famous African American actor and dancer. 1933 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933016
Bill Robinson (1878-1949), also known as Bojangles, famous African American actor and dancer. 1933
EVB2933027:
Louis Armstrong and Vice President Richard Nixon, 1957 (photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933027
Louis Armstrong and Vice President Richard Nixon, 1957 (photo)
Unknown photographer, (20th century)
EVB2933029:
Louis Armstrong, Nice, France, 1960 (photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933029
Louis Armstrong, Nice, France, 1960 (photo)
Unknown photographer, (20th century)
EVB2933036:
Jazzkongen New Orleans, 1947 (poster) / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933036
Jazzkongen New Orleans, 1947 (poster)
EVB2933042:
Josephine Baker in a seductive pose. c. 1920's (photo), Gudenberg, Freiherr Wolff von (1890-1961) / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933042
Josephine Baker in a seductive pose. c. 1920's (photo)
Gudenberg, Freiherr Wolff von (1890-1961)
EVB2933046:
Count Basie (1904-1984), African American jazz musician at the piano, 1958 / Bridgeman Images
ID: EVB2933046
Count Basie (1904-1984), African American jazz musician at the piano, 1958