IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. When she debuted at Paris’s Théâtre ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, Josephine Baker was known for her banana skirt, pet cheetah and seminude stage shows in France. Later, she spoke out for civil rights with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

After she escaped the slums of St. Louis for Paris in 1925, Josephine Baker (1906-1975) became the most famous entertainer in the world. Pictured in a string of beads and a skirt of fake bananas, she ...