A young Dorothy Dandridge with a group of beauty queens in the 1940s. Photo: Clyde Woods.
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Modeling pioneer Ophelia DeVore (right) with clients and friends (l-r) Joan Murry, Trudy Haynes, the Philadelphia news legend, actress and writer Ellen Holly and the great model Helen Williams. Photo via opheliadevore.com.
Jimi Hendrix having his hair done whilst reading Mad magazine.
My God… I’ve been looking for an excuse to put Jimi Hendrix up for the longest…
Beverly Johnson @BeverlyJohnson1 in a 1970s Max Factor advertisement. She has a new show, “Beverly’s Full House,” coming up on Oprah’s OWN on March 31st.
A 1969 Revlon ‘Colorsilk’ advertisement.
Aretha Franklin’s “Do Right” Glamour: The latest installment of Vintage Black Glamour is up on EBONY.com!
Stunning shot of Nina Simone by Pittsburgh photography icon Charles “Teenie” Harris, circa 1965.
Whitney Houston in a 1980s Max Factor ad.
Fashion Shows Are Big Business for Models Like Cordie King - Jet Magazine, April 3, 1952 on Flickr.
love, Love, LOVE Cordie King. #QuintessentialVintageBlackGlamour
Darnella Thomas in one of her groundbreaking ads from the legendary Charlie fragrance campaign in the 1970s.
From Black and Beautiful: How Women of Color Changed the Fashion Industry by former Ford model Barbara Summers
Although Darnella shot at least four ads for the Charlie campaign, she was not signed to a contract. “Every time I did a shoot for them I would get paid whatever the day rate was; it was never a contract. A contract would have entailed them giving me the television commercials, which is what I really wanted. I know for a for a fact that the reason I did the second, third, and fourth ads was because they got a lot of letters about me. I wouldn’t have continued to do them if they weren’t successful. It was interesting, too, that I didn’t see some of the ads. When you photographed, you shot two or three ads. I don’t know how many they used, or where. The ads ran in some parts of Africa and Latin America, but they didn’t tell me that. I wasn’t supposed to know obviously. Who thought that far? I was only looking for Essence, you know? But they used my ad in Vogue and Glamour also.
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Tamara Dobson in a 1978 Tigress fragrance advertisement. She is best known for her role as “Cleopatra Jones.”
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Aretha Franklin. Can we talk about her trademark hot pink lips in the 1960s?
