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Weber and Fields on stage, Unknown photographer, c. 1910

Joe Weber and Lew Fields in their characteristic roles as German comedians.

Sissle and Blake, c. 1921, Unknown, Richard Carlin, c. 1921

A performance photograph of the duo Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle taken during their vaudeville days.

Shuffle Along, 2016, Playbill magazine

Cover of a playbill

Noble Sissle in a scene from a Vitaphone short, 1927, VItaphone, Richard Carlin, 1927

Noble Sissle shown performing a spiritual in a short sound film made in 1927

Josephine Baker in Paris, Unknown photographer, c. 1926

Josephine Baker in a dramatic pose seated in front of a stuffed lion's head.

Josephine Baker and unidentified banjo player in Chocolate Dandies, White Studios, NYPL digital collection, c. 1924

Photograph from Sissle and Blake's musical production, Chocolate Dandies

Jim Crow as pictured on a 19th century sheet music cover, Unknown, Library of Congress, c. 1840

Jim Crow depicted in ragged clothes performing a shuffling dance.

Private interview recording by Blesh and Lipskin., Eubie Blake Interview on Blackface, Richard Carlin, 1967

Eubie is interviewed by Rudi Blesh and Mike Lipskin in 1967 and discusses his first appearances on vaudeville.

Flournoy Miller (author); Miller and Aubrey Lyles (performers), Election Day in Jimtown, excerpt, Richard Carlin, 1921

Portion of a comic routine from the musical Shuffle Along.

Color cut-out of minstrel figures, Unknown, Unknown, C. late 19th-early 20th century

A European cut out probably from the late 19th or early 20th century depicting two minstrel stereotypes