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Cotton Club, New York City. Photo: Cotton Club Opened as Club DeLux on Street and Lenox Avenue by Jack Johnson in After the club failed, John. Old Photos, Vintage Photos, Vintage Signs, Ask The Dust, Pokerface, Duke Ellington, Harlem Renaissance, Renaissance Wedding, Vintage New York

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The Cotton Club | Harlem, New York

The Cotton Club was a famous night club in New York City that operated during Prohibition. While the club featured many of the greatest African American entertainers of the era, such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Bessie Smith, Cab Calloway, The Nicholas Brothers, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Billie Holiday, and Ethel Waters, it generally denied admission to blacks. During its heyday, it served as a chic meeting spot in the heart of Harlem, featuring regular "Celebrity…

Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was a jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer. Jazz Artists, Jazz Musicians, Music Artists, Music Icon, Soul Music, Indie Music, Music Music, The Blues Brothers, Jazz Blues

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--- Jazz musician Cab Calloway wearing a white zoot suit and holding a baton. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS Jazz Artists, Jazz Musicians, Music Artists, Music Icon, My Music, Rock And Roll, The Blues Brothers, Cool Jazz, Smooth Jazz

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Cabell "Cab" Calloway III was an American jazz singer and bandleader. He was strongly associated with the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City, where he was a regular performer. Der Gentleman, The Blues Brothers, Vintage Black Glamour, Vintage Men, African American History, Mae West, Black People, Black Is Beautiful, Musical

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Fannie Mae Bragg Duncan, founder of the Cotton Club

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Fannie Mae Bragg Duncan, founder of the Cotton Club

American Jazz Singer, Bandleader, and Composer, Blanche Calloway Her brother Cab was much more famous but Blanche had a wonderful, successful career as well. On a side note I actually saw Cab Calloway perform live in the early The Blues Brothers, Vintage Black Glamour, Jazz Artists, Cotton Club, Harlem Renaissance, Jazz Blues, My Black Is Beautiful, Jazz Music, African American History

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American Jazz Singer, Bandleader, and Composer Blanche Calloway, Cab's sister!

Exotic dancer Sahji (Madeline Jackson) was a headline dancer at the Cotton Club from 1933 to She's beautiful! Black Pin Up, Black Art, Vintage Black Glamour, Vintage Beauty, 1920s Glamour, Vintage Vogue, Vintage Hollywood, Pin Up Girls, Pin Up Noire

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Exotic dancer Sahji (Madeline Jackson) was a headline dancer at the Cotton Club from 1933 to 1939.

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Jack Johnson: The first Black prize fighting champion...and original owner of The Cotton Club!

The Cotton Club Revue, a 1938 tour through South America, with some of the Silver Belles as young dancers. For more on the African American experience visit Discover Black Heritage. The Cotton Club, Harlem Renaissance Fashion, Renaissance Era, Renaissance Literature, Renaissance Wedding, Cabaret, Vintage Black Glamour, Vintage Style, Vintage Hair

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The Cotton Club Revue, a 1938 tour through South America, with some of the Silver Belles as young dancers. For more on the African American experience visit Discover Black Heritage.

Cab Calloway in one of his famous zoot suits. Which of course he picked up from Harlem street fashion then made it his own 1950 Style, Men's Style, Style Icons, Chicano, Trajes Zoot, Dandy, The Blues Brothers, Brothers Movie, Hippie Man

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Cab Calloway performing, ca. 1940s "A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage." - Cab Calloway

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Juanita Boisseau was one of the original dancers at the Cotton Club in Harlem. She passed away at the age of 100 on May Boisseau worked with some of the Jazz world’s most famous musicians including Lena Horne, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. The Cotton Club, Vintage Black Glamour, Vintage Beauty, Vintage Soul, Vintage Glam, Black Is Beautiful, Beautiful Women, Black Dancers, Black Pin Up

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Lena Horne - Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood