55 Rare Vintage Photos Of Glamorous Black Women
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The gowns, the fur stoles, the gloves, the pearls! 😭
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Florence, 1953. Photograph by Fedele Toscani
Look at that gorgeous neckline! There is something to be noted about the high-collared dress and its ability to effortlessly exude elegance.
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1960s Pastel Princesses
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The Hat Ladies | 1941 | Southside Chicago
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Beauty contestants in Los Angeles, sometime around 1955. Shared by Writer and collector Jim Linderman
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c.1963
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1958 | Four unidentified women modeling for a car dealership. Scurlock Collection. Smithsonian
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Sisters in Skirts, circa 1950’s, Earl McCann Collection.
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Brides maids at a wedding in Harlem, NYC, 1962
Photography by Bruce Davidson
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1910 | Portrait of Malissa Hardin by Joseph Pennell. Joseph C. Pennell Collection, University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS
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1907 | Portrait of Mrs. Will Richardson by Joseph Pennell. Joseph C. Pennell Collection, University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS
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1880s
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1960s | Photograph by Henry Clay Anderson
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c. 1910
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Pin-up girls at the Sandpoint Naval Air Station in Seattle, Spring Formal Dance, April 10, 1944.
Vintage African American photography courtesy of Black History Album, The Way We Were.
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Pennsylvania railroad station, New York City, 1942
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Easter Parade Southside Chicago, 1941 - Russell Lee
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1940s
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Club Ebony Nightclub, New York | 1940s
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Beauty in Harlem, New York, 1950s
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An African American woman posed next to car on Mulford Street, Homewood (Pittsburgh, PA), c. 1937
Photo Credit: Teenie Harris Archive, 1920-1970 © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
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1970s | Graham Wood / Evening Standard / Getty Images
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1970s
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c.1940
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Thelma Porter, Miss Subways 1948
“Between 1941 and 1976, New York commuters were charmed by posters of regular New York women while riding the city's trains and buses. "Miss Subways" was selected each month by New Yorkers, in a pageant that reflected America's diversity long before the nation's other beauty contests.” - NPR.com
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Howard University Queen Contestants, 1947 Addison Scurlock, photographer.
Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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Donyale Luna in Lurex by Paco Rabanne, photo by David Bailey for Vogue, 1966
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The Covered Wagon Whist Club Addison Scurlock, photographer.
Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
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The great Charles “Teenie” Harris took this photo of ladies club members “Debs About Town” in 1941 on a step outside of the University of Pittsburgh’s Falk School. Photo: Carnegie Museum of Art
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Group of ladies at the Midwest Horse Show, circa 1938, Chicago. This event was the pinnacle of the African American social scene in Chicago.
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Debutant Cotillion
Texas, 1950’s
©WaheedPhotoArchive, 2014
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1920s | Portrait of black woman dressed in flapper style. Addison Scurlock, photographer. via Black History Album
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The Cotton Club Revue, a 1938 tour through South America, with some of the Silver Belles as young dancers via Black History Album
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Executive board of Women's League, Newport, R.I. via Black History Album
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1950s | Headed to Sunday Service
©WaheedPhotoArchive, 2012
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c.1962
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Models Cordie King and Alberta Culbreath model afternoon fashions for Ebony Fashion Fair in a 1958 issue of EBONY
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New York City. 1983. A wedding party with bridesmaids on Fifth Ave in Harlem. Candid of bridesmaids wearing long pink gowns, photo: Thomas Hoepker.
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Pre and post-independent Ghana, 1950s-60s
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Naomi Sims at the “Harlem Homecoming” benefit show for the Dance Theater of Harlem in 1972. Image via Bettmann/Corbis
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