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Jessie Ellis in a publicity photo for ‘In Dahomey’in London. Photo by by Cavendish Morton, 1903.
(source: National Portrait Gallery, London)
Aida Overton Walker in ‘In Dahomey’
circa 1903
© National Portrait Gallery, London
(Source: npg.org.uk)
![vintageblackbeauty:
White Studio (active 1904–36) [Minnie Brown], ca. 1907 Collection of the International Center of Photography
(Source: International Center of Photography)](http://www.icp.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/node_image_enlargement/exhibition_images/aavp_4.jpg)
White Studio (active 1904–36)
[Minnie Brown], ca. 1907
Collection of the International Center of Photography
(Source: International Center of Photography)
Another Ada Overton Walker portrait part of the collection in London’s National Portrait Gallery.
Ada came to London with the production of In Dahomey in which she played Rosetta Lightfoot, ‘a troublesome young thing’.
Photograph by Cavendish Morton (1903)
Ada Overton Walker (14 February 1880 - 11 October 1914) from Corey’s fantastic post on the Edwardian entertainer.
http://illkeepyouposted.typepad.com/ill_keep_you_posted/2011/06/the-ada-overton-walker-overload.html
PS Corey I love you xx
