#vintage singers

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Lena Horne gets ready for a performance at the Copacabana in August 1947.

Photo: George Mattson via the NY Daily News

[peggy-elise]

Happy first of May! 🧺🪻👒🌸

Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in Maytime 1937

[legendarytragedynacho]

Billie Holiday

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Sketch for Eros and Psyche’ by John Singer Sargent, c. 1917-21.

[mudwerks]

Josephine Baker

French postcard. Photo: Roger Viollet. Caption: Josephine Baker (1906-1975) American music-hall artist, May 1926.

[streetplaya]

The Lola Falana Show

[kitsunetsuki]

Richard Avedon - Cher (Vogue 1970)

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Ann-Margret (1966)

[john-singer-sargent-paintings]

-Rosina-

[emeraldexplorer2]

Debbie Harry at home 1968

[peggy-elise]

For the first of May, the wonderful duo Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in Maytime 1937 🌸

[anatomicalmartyr]

Some well known aristocratic beauties of the late Victorian and the Edwardian era as depicted by John Singer Sargent and in photography

Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon (1904)  //  Winifred, Duchess of Portland (1902)  // Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1892)  // Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland (1904) // Consuelo Vanderbilt in The Marlborough Family (1904/05)

[vintage-tigre]

Sadé Adu photographed by Albert Watson (1992)

[sbrown82]

Marsha Hunt, circa 1970.

[leatherandmossprints]

‘Study of a Young Man, Seated’ by John Singer Sargent, c. 1895.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Ella Fitzgerald with the Chick Webb Orchestra at the Savoy, 1938. Webb is at the far left, smiling up at Ella.

Photo: IMDB