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

From UCLA's Los Angeles Daily News Collection. Believed to have been published in 1949.

Kodachrome image of Billie Holiday by Carl Van Vechten taken on 23 March 1949. These images are now in the Yale University Library.

Kodachrome image of Billie Holiday by Carl Van Vechten taken on 23 March 1949. These images are now in the Yale University Library.

Kodachrome image of Billie Holiday by Carl Van Vechten taken on 23 March 1949. These images are now in the Yale University Library.

Kodachrome image of Billie Holiday by Carl Van Vechten taken on 23 March 1949. These images are now in the Yale University Library.

This is the first of a series of musical celebrities, pictured in the intimacy of their own dressing rooms by the camera of Bill Gottlieb, Down Beat staffer. Billie Holiday is his first subject, with the looking glass reflecting such items as pancake makeup, the fresh pineapple for the singer's throat and her pet Boxer

Camille Kimberly 2016

Billie Holiday at the Downbeat club, a jazz club in New York City. [1]

Billie Holiday and her dog Mister Dog, backstage dressing room, probably at the Downbeat, NYC