Photo, Print, Drawing [Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat(?), New York, N.Y., ca. June 1946] Caption from Down Beat: [from article] The gal singers, Billie Holiday and Mildred Bailey, have been singing about a quarter of a mile from each other: Billie at the Club Downbeat on 52nd St. and Mildred at the Blue Angel on the East 50's

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Title
[Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat(?), New York, N.Y., ca. June 1946]
Other Title
Caption from Down Beat: [from article] The gal singers, Billie Holiday and Mildred Bailey, have been singing about a quarter of a mile from each other: Billie at the Club Downbeat on 52nd St. and Mildred at the Blue Angel on the East 50's
Alternate Title
Caption from Down Beat: [from article] The gal singers, Billie Holiday and Mildred Bailey, have been singing about a quarter of a mile from each other: Billie at the Club Downbeat on 52nd St. and Mildred at the Blue Angel on the East 50's
Contributor Names
Gottlieb, William P. -- 1917- (photographer)
Created / Published
1946, monographic.
Subject Headings
-  Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959
-  Women jazz musicians -- 1940-1950
-  Jazz singers -- 1940-1950
-  Boxers (Dogs) -- 1940-1950
Genre
graphic
Notes
-  Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress.
-  Purchase William P. Gottlieb
-  Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress).
-  General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at
-  In: The Record Changer, v. 6, no. 2 (Apr. 47, 1947), p. 7.
-  Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 269 (gottlieb assignment)
-  269 (assignment)
-  LC-GLB13-0422 DLC (stock number)
-  got99000422 (got)
-  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.04221 (url)
-  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.04222 (url)
-  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.04223 (url)
Form
electronic resource
remote
nonprojected graphic
photonegative
graphic
Extent
1 negative : b&w ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Repository
Music Division
Access Condition
Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply.
LC Classification
LC-GLB13- 0422
Online Format
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Gottlieb, William P. Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat?, New York, N.Y., ca. June. United States, 1946. , Monographic. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.04221/.

APA citation style:

Gottlieb, W. P. (1946) Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat?, New York, N.Y., ca. June. United States, 1946. , Monographic. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.04221/.

MLA citation style:

Gottlieb, William P. Portrait of Billie Holiday, Downbeat?, New York, N.Y., ca. June. , Monographic. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.04221/>.

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