• Eric N. Hong, photographer; hand coloring by Midori Fujioka. Alvin Ailey, founder of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00) Digital ID # aa0009.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Jack Mitchell, photographer. Lester Horton Dance Theater members  (left to right): James Truitte, Joyce Trisler, Alvin Ailey, and Lelia Goldoni in Ailey’s first choreographic work, According to St. Francis, 1954. Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Photograph © Jack Mitchell (001.00.00) [Digital ID #aa0001.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Photographer unknown. Members of the Lester Horton Dance Theater (left to right): Alvin Ailey, Misaye Kawasumi, Roland Goldwater, and Lelia Goldoni in an early Ailey work, La Creation du Monde, 1954. Lester Horton Dance Theater Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (002.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0002.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Alvin Ailey. Handwritten teaching notebook with notes on exercises based on the dance technique of Lester Horton, n.d.  Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (006.00.00, 006.00.01) [Digital ID # aa0006.jpg; aa0006_1.jpg] These images used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Photographer unknown. Ailey in a studio portrait, 1955. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (005.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0005.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Erick Smith, photographer. Carmen de Lavallade and Alvin Ailey in an early production of Blues Suite, ca. 1960. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (013.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0013.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Costas, photographer. Masazumi Chaya in Blues Suite, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0029.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Jack Mitchell, photographer. Masazumi Chaya (bottom) and Ralph Glenmore in Jennifer Muller’s Speeds, 1974. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Photograph © Jack Mitchell (030.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0030.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Photographer unknown. Alvin Ailey, Ella Thompson Moore, and Myrna White in Revelations, ca. 1960. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (014.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0014.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Photographer unknown. Alvin Ailey in Revelations, ca. 1960. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (019.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0019.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.

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  • Johan Elbers, photographer. Judith Jamison in Ailey’s The Mooche, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (023.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0023.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Kenn Duncan, photographer. Maxine Sherman in Ailey’s Memoria, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0022.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Photographer unknown. AAADT in Ailey’s For Bird—With Love, ca. 1984. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (027.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0027.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Jack Mitchell, photographer. Gary DeLoatch in Ailey’s For Bird—With Love (1984). Poster. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress Photograph © Jack Mitchell (062.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0062.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • The Magic of Katherine Dunham, 1987. Poster. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress (007.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0007.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Coreen Simpson, photographer. Alvin Ailey with Katherine Dunham, n.d. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Photograph © Coreen Simpson (008.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0008.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Louis Johnson, costume designer. Design for the Chorus Boys in Fontessa and Friends, ca. 1981. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of Louis Johnson (036.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0036.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Jack Vartoogian, photographer. Men from AAADT as Chorus Boys in Louis Johnson’s Fontessa and Friends, ca. 1981. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Photograph © Jack Vartoogian/FrontRowPhotos (037.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0037.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Louis Johnson, costume designer. Design for the character Ragtime in Fontessa and Friends, ca. 1981. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of Louis Johnson (040.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0040.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
  • Jack Mitchell, photographer. Desmond Richardson as Ragtime in Louis Johnson’ s Fontessa and Friends, ca. 1981. Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Collection, Music Division, Library of  Congress. Photograph © Jack Mitchell (041.00.00) [Digital ID # aa0041.jpg] This image used by permission of Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.

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