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Description Portrait of Bessie Smith holding feathers
Date Taken on 3 February 1936
Source
This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID ppmsca.09571.
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Author Carl Van Vechten, restored by Adam Cuerden
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Public domain This work is from the Carl Van Vechten Photographs collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
As the restrictions on this collection expired in 1986, the Library of Congress believes this image is in the public domain. However, the Carl Van Vechten estate has asked that use of Van Vechten's photographs "preserve the integrity" of his work, i.e, that photographs not be colorized or cropped, and that proper credit is given to the photographer.
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Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African American blues singer. Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues

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Bessie Smith

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3 February 1936

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