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#                 Lady Day: Billie Holiday      

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Duke Ellington called Billie Holiday "the essence of cool," a reference to her equipoise in performance. One of the most influential jazz vocalists of all time, Holiday had a controlled emotional power that transformed even trite ballads into romantic short stories. Nicknamed “Lady Day” by Lester Young, she performed with Count Basie in 1937 and became one of the first African American vocalists to headline an all-white band when she joined Artie Shaw’s Orchestra in 1938. A year later, Holiday introduced “Strange Fruit,” the haunting indictment of southern lynching that would become one of her most iconic songs.
  -          National Portrait Gallery        Billie Holiday 
-          National Postal Museum        29c Billie Holiday single 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Billie Holiday 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Billie Holiday 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Photograph of Billie Holiday 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Billie Holiday 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Billie Holiday 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Billie Holiday 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Photograph of Billie Holiday 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Photograph of Billie Holiday 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Costume design drawing by Judy Dearing for Billie Holiday in The Song of Sheba 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Black lace and rust satin cocktail dress worn by Billie Holiday 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        *Slow Fade to Black: Billie Holiday* 
-          National Portrait Gallery        Maya Angelou and Billie Holiday 
-  Holiday, Billie (Fagan, Eleanora) 
-          National Museum of American History        Strange Fruit; Fine and Mellow 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Photograph of Billie Holiday and her dog Mister 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        *Billie Holiday at a dinner party under a "Lady Day" sign* 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        *Billie Holiday with popular Bop City waitress, c. 1952* 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Laquer disc of Billie Holiday master recordings 
-          National Museum of American History        *Lady Day* 
-          National Museum of American History        What a Little Moonlight Can Do; If You Were Mine 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        *The Birth of Blues* 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        *Great American Musicians* 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Playbill for Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill 
-          National Museum of African American History and Culture        Program for An Evening of Comedy with Jackie 'Moms' Mabley and Her Ladies 
-  H-125, Billie Holiday, publicity portrait 
-  Billie Holiday singing : black-and-white photoprint 
-  Billie Holiday in a white dress singing with a band which includes a drummer 
-  Billy sic Holiday at Club 'Bali' w/ith owner Benny Caldwell cellulose acetate photonegative 
-  Billie Holiday Recording "Fine and Mellow" (with Eddie Dougherty, Kenneth Hollon, Jimmy McLin, Stan Payne, Tab Smith, Sonny White, John Williams), 
-  H-611, Billie Holiday with Red Allen Band 
-  Billie Holiday onstage, singing at microphone, looking up at stage from a low angle cellulose acetate photonegative 
-          Catalog of American Portraits        Billie Holiday 
-          Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service        "Billie Holiday at Sugar Hill: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic" 
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