Credits
This guide was originally created by library interns Christina Davis and Joe Peterson and is maintained by the Music Division & Recorded Sound Reference Librarians. The images used in this guide are an assortment from the NYPL's Digital Collection and other sources. Each image is credited below.
"Oliver Smith and Rudolf Bing with Lucia Chase signing a contract with Metropolitan Opera, no. 31" is available as part of the New York Public Library Digital Collections.
"Actors (L-R) Keith Carradine and Gregory Peck at recording session for the Broadway musical "The Will Rogers Follies." (New York)" is available as part of the New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Billie Holiday (right) with Louis Armstrong in publicity photograph for the 1947 film "New Orleans" is available as part of the New York Public Library Digital Collections.
This image of Chance the Rapper was obtained from the Wikimedia Commons is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
This photo of Aretha Franklin was obtained from the NYPL New York Jazz Museum Photograph Collection.
This image, of James Tigner Jr. in Atlanta, was obtained from the Georgia State University Library Digital Collections and was created by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
This image of the state capitol in Nashville, TN is available from the The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection and is a part of the NYPL Digital Collections.