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cartermagazine:

Today In History
‘Langston Hughes founded the New Negro Theater in Los Angeles, CA, on this date March 19, 1939.’
(photo: Langston Hughes)
- CARTER Magazine

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pipercarter:

Saskia De Brauw, Arizona Muse, Joan Smalls: Harper’s Bazaar US, March ‘12

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vanityfair:

All the 1920s fashion we hope will be on Downton Abbey’s Season Three—including guesses as to what Mary’s wedding dress will be, here.
Photograph from 1924 showing Cartier original jewels; Conde Nast Archive.

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madtuncmorel:

Archibald John Motley, Jr (American Harlem Renaissance painter, 1891-1981)

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Interpretation of Harlem Jazz I | Winold Reiss

Aaron Douglas
(1898-1979)

Born in Kansas in 1898, Douglas received a BA in art from the University of Nebraska. Douglas taught art in Kansas City for a few years until he decided to pursue a career as an artist and headed to New York to earn his MA from Columbia University. Douglas also studied with Winold Reiss, an illustrator from Germany, who encouraged him to look to African art and themes for inspiration in his work. …
(PBS)

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