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Bessie Smith (1936) by Carl Van Vechten

Taken on 3 February 1936

Classification: Photograph
Museum: Wikimedia Commons
Credit line: This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID ppmsca.09571. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still…
Rights: Public domain, as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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Portrait of Bessie Smith holding feathers

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