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Vintage Black Glamour

The Glamorous Life from the beginning by Nichelle Gainer

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    Josephine Baker and her husband, bandleader Jo Bouillon with some of their adopted children in France, 1964. 

    Josephine Baker and her husband, bandleader Jo Bouillon with some of their adopted children in France, 1964. 

    — 2 weeks ago with 203 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Josephine Baker  #mothers day  #vintage  #Jo Bouillon 
    Do you ever get enough of Josephine Baker? I don’t! Here, she is in Christian Dior in March 1951, singing into a mic which conceals her hand-held corsage onstage at the Strand theater in New York during her US tour. Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.

    Do you ever get enough of Josephine Baker? I don’t! Here, she is in Christian Dior in March 1951, singing into a mic which conceals her hand-held corsage onstage at the Strand theater in New York during her US tour. Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.

    — 1 month ago with 205 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Josephine Baker  #New York  #vintage  #flowers  #history  #fashion 
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Interview with a Diva
La Baker being interviewed by a journalist in her dressing room.

Josephine Baker being interviewed by a journalist in her dressing room, circa 1930s.

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    Interview with a Diva

    La Baker being interviewed by a journalist in her dressing room.

    Josephine Baker being interviewed by a journalist in her dressing room, circa 1930s.

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    — 1 month ago with 183 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Josephine Baker  #vintage  #dressing rooms 
    Josephine Baker, just minding her own business, August 29, 1933. 
Photo via Corbis.

    Josephine Baker, just minding her own business, August 29, 1933. 

    Photo via Corbis.

    — 2 months ago with 184 notes
    #vintage black glamour  #Josephine Baker  #1930s  #vintage  #Black and White  #fashion  #style 
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Josephine Baker et Georges-Henri Rivière dans une vitrine de l’exposition sur la Mission Dakar-Djibouti au Musée d’ethnographie du Trocadéro, 1933

Josephine Baker and Georges-Henri Rivière in a showcase exhibition on the Dakar-Djibouti Mission at the Ethnography Museum of the Trocadero, 1933 (translated from holdthisphoto’s French via Google Translator).

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    Josephine Baker et Georges-Henri Rivière dans une vitrine de l’exposition sur la Mission Dakar-Djibouti au Musée d’ethnographie du Trocadéro, 1933

    Josephine Baker and Georges-Henri Rivière in a showcase exhibition on the Dakar-Djibouti Mission at the Ethnography Museum of the Trocadero, 1933 (translated from holdthisphoto’s French via Google Translator).

    — 4 months ago with 207 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Josephine Baker  #Georges Henri Riviere  #art  #museums  #dance 

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    Josephine Baker gets her nails did, 1937

    Josephine Baker getting her nails done, 1937. And I thought the 1950s pedicure shot was great! 

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    — 6 months ago with 294 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Josephine Baker 
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Original caption: “Josephine Baker (L) receiving hug fr. columnist & friend Nora Ray Holt in her dressing room after her show at the Strand theater during her US tour.” Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt. Life magazine. Mar 10, 1951
SCREAMED when I saw this picture!

Vintage Iconoclasts! Josephine Baker hugging Nora Holt in her dressing room on March 10, 1951. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life magazine. 

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    Original caption: “Josephine Baker (L) receiving hug fr. columnist & friend Nora Ray Holt in her dressing room after her show at the Strand theater during her US tour.” Photo: Alfred Eisenstaedt. Life magazine. Mar 10, 1951

    SCREAMED when I saw this picture!

    Vintage Iconoclasts! Josephine Baker hugging Nora Holt in her dressing room on March 10, 1951. Photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life magazine. 

    (Source: LIFE)

    — 6 months ago with 60 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #Josephine Baker  #Nora Holt 
    Josephine Baker, her husband Jo Bouillon with some of their adopted children in France, 1964.

    Josephine Baker, her husband Jo Bouillon with some of their adopted children in France, 1964.

    — 1 year ago with 115 notes
    #Vintage Black Glamour  #vintage  #black and white  #Josephine Baker  #Jo Bouillon