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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Baker, Josephine (1906-1975) & Billie Holiday (1915-1959) Seven Press Photos on Four Sheets, 1936 & 1949. Including six black-and-white Associated Press photographs of Josephine Baker printed two to a sheet, dated 11 February 1936, performing in New York, with short AP stories tacked to the versos of two, each sheet 4 1/4 x 7 inches with two 3 1/2 x 4 inch images; [and] and one 6 3/4 x 5 1/4 inch black-and-white image of Billie Holiday, dated January 1949, while being booked on narcotics charges in San Francisco, wearing dark glasses and a fur coat, with her hair up in a turban, (crazing to surface).
Josephine Baker returned to the U.S. from Europe in 1936 to perform in the Ziegfeld Follies at the Winter Garden theater after ten years in France. In all of these photos she is on stage performing her dance, "The Conga."
Holiday was on tour in California when her husband was involved in a stabbing in Los Angeles, and then she was implicated in a narcotics charge in San Francisco. Agents from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics raided room 203 at the Hotel Mark Twain [now the Tilden Hotel], where she was staying and allegedly found a pipe and a small quantity of opium. She was ultimately acquitted of the charges.
