File:Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947 (LOC, 5020400274, cropped).jpg

Summary

Description

English: Gottlieb, William P., 1917-, photographer.

[Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947]

1 negative : b&w ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in.

Notes: Gottlieb Collection Assignment No. 268 Reference print available in Music Division, Library of Congress. Purchase William P. Gottlieb Forms part of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects: Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959 Mister Women jazz musicians--1940-1950. Jazz singers--1940-1950. Boxers (Dogs)--1940-1950. Fifty-second Street (New York, N.Y.)--1940-1950. Downbeat

Format: Portrait photographs--1940-1950. Cityscape photographs--1940-1950. Film negatives--1940-1950.

Rights Info: Mr. Gottlieb has dedicated these works to the public domain, but rights of privacy and publicity may apply. lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-copyrig...

Repository: (negative) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print (contact print) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print (reference print) Library of Congress, Music Division, Washington D.C. 20540 USA, loc.gov/rr/perform/

Part Of: William P. Gottlieb Collection (DLC) 99-401005

General information about the Gottlieb Collection is available at lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/gottlieb/gottlieb-home.html

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/gottlieb.04281

Call Number: LC-GLB23- 0428

Date

1947

Source

[Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947] (LOC)

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID gottlieb.04281.
This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing.

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Author



Alternative names	Birth name: William Paul Gottlieb; Bill Gottlieb; William Gottlieb
Description	American photographer, journalist and teacher
Date of birth/death	28 January 1917	23 April 2006
Location of birth/death	Brooklyn	Great Neck
Work period	1930s date QS:P,+1930-00-00T00:00:00Z/8 , 1940s date QS:P,+1940-00-00T00:00:00Z/8
Work location	New York City, Washington, D.C.
Authority file	: Q622278 VIAF: 113043399 ISNI: 0000000117801486 ULAN: 500483750 LCCN: n82145642 NLA: 35879051 WorldCat

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This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Crop and rough cleanup. The original can be viewed here: Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947 (LOC, 5020400274).jpg: . Modifications made by Opencooper.

TIFF

Camera location	40° 45′ 38.72″ N, 73° 58′ 42.87″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	40.760756; -73.978575

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	This is a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons (Featured pictures) and is considered one of the finest images. See its nomination here. If you have an image of similar quality that can be published under a suitable copyright license, be sure to upload it, tag it, and nominate it.

This image has been selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 7 April 2025. It will be captioned as follows:

English: Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, taken by William Gottlieb at the Downbeat Club, New York, 1947. Today, 110 years ago, she was born in Philadelphia.

Other languages:

English: Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, taken by William Gottlieb at the Downbeat Club, New York, 1947. Today, 110 years ago, she was born in Philadelphia.

Licensing

This work is from the William P. Gottlieb collection at the Library of Congress. Rights and restrictions.
In accordance with the wishes of William Gottlieb, the photographs in this collection entered into the public domain on February 16, 2010.

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by the Library of Congress at https://flickr.com/photos/8623220@N02/5020400274. It was reviewed on 2015-09-01 22:56:54 by FlickreviewR and confirmed to be the same image. Library of Congress images should not be tagged with {{Flickrreview}} but with {{LOC-image}}. Images posted to Flickr are also generally of lower resolution than available from LOC directly. Please consider reuploading the image in a higher resolution from the original Library of Congress website.

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File:Portrait of Billie Holiday and Mister, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947 (LOC, 5020400274, cropped).jpg

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Items portrayed in this file

depicts

Billie Holiday

creator

some value

copyright status

no known copyright restrictions

copyright license

no known copyright restrictions

media type

image/jpeg

source of file

file available on the internet

height

5,022 pixel

width

4,512 pixel

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Wikimedia Commons featured picture

checksum

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data size

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coordinates of the point of view

40°45'38.722"N, 73°58'42.870"W

inception

1947

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