Eusebia Cosme (1930)
Source: Imani D. Owens - Turn the World Upside Down: Empire and Unruly Forms of Black Folk Culture in the U.S. and Caribbean (2023: 134)
Ethel Ennis, 1964.
Fan attending a Grace Jones concert at the Les Mouches club in New York, 1977. Photographed by Nick Machalaba.
R.I.P to the first well known black model, Helen Williams, who passed away on July 26, 2023. Her obituary was just recently published in the NY Times on November 2. Helen was the most photographed, and highest paid, Black model of her era.
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