The Cotton Club was a New York City nightclub from 1923 to 1940. It was located on 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue (1923 to 1935), then briefly in midtown Theater District 1935-1940.Continue reading
Earlier in the week we posted photographs of Blanche Dunn, who lived the American dream, she was a glamorous Jamaican born actress, socialite, and Harlemite who traveled the world, here are more of photographs taken by her friend Carl Van Vechten in Harlem, New York 1941.Continue reading
She was satirized under pseudonyms in Harlem Renaissance novels. Throughout that period she was referred to as a bronze venus, dusky diva and outrageous party girl. Continue reading