Hard Time Blues
Photographs of dancer and choreographer Pearl Primus dancing “Hard Time Blues,” her dance based on a folk song about sharecropping by singer Josh White. Primus was well known and widely celebrated for her dance performances based on important African American poems and songs, including “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes and “Strange Fruit” by Lewis Allen. Photographs by Carl Van Vechten, 1943.
Additional resources: Pearl Primus on Wikipedia; Josh White on Wikipedia; Carl Van Vechten on Wikipedia. All photographs by Carl Van Vechten are used with permission of the Van Vechten Trust; the permission of the Trust is required to reprint or use Van Vechten photographs in any way. To contact the Trust email: Van Vechten Trust.
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Issues of a newsletter for a gay men’s community, near Amherst, Mass. in the 1970s.
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The reason is . . .
. . . it is a strikingly beautiful image.
Natalia Gontcharova’s cover for Lord Berners’ song, “Poisson d’Or”, 1919.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/a/amory-berners.html
http://www.bookrags.com/Natalia_Goncharova
Playing Dirty
Selected images from a collection of novelty baseball postcards, circa 1910 (Call Number: Gen MSS File 359).
Captain Ginger!
A set of 5 (out of 6 published) titles in the Captain Ginger series,
written by Isabel Anderson and published in 1910 & 1911. (Boston : C.M. Clark).
These copies were the author’s own, specially bound in limp suede covers.
Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities 
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