Iman in a 1976 Avon advertisement. She is wearing a dress by Giorgio Sant’ Angelo.
Billy Dee Williams in a 1980s TCB haircare advertisement.
A 1970s Ultra Sheen advertisement.
A 1959 advertisement for After Six formal wear that appeared in Ebony magazine. The female model appears to be the same model from the 1959 Bulova watch advertisement I posted yesterday. I really need to find out her name and where she is from (Detroit? Lagos?)
A 1959 Christmas advertisement for Bulova watches that appeared in Ebony magazine.
Sam Cooke in an advertisement for L&M cigarettes that appeared in the April 1964 issue of Ebony.
Pioneering model Helen Williams, in a 1960s Avon cosmetics advertisement.
A 1964 advertisement for Coca-Cola that appeared in Ebony magazine.
Carmen de Lavallade in a 1967 advertisement for Coca Cola.
Judy Pace in a 1967 advertisement for Ultra Sheen.
A 1974 Fashion Fair ad featuring Pal Henry, a woman who describes leaving her nursing career behind to go back to modeling because “one medic in the family was quite enough.” Let’s hope that worked out for her in the long run…
A 1961 Dixie Peach advertisement that appeared in Ebony featuring Eileen Mills, Director “of the glamorous Negro cover girls at New York’s leading agency for colored models.”
