Picture credits
Every picture is reproduced at the size the page draws it, not at the size the archive holds. Where a licence is share-alike, the reduced copy carries that same licence.
- “Billie Holiday, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Feb. 1947 (William P. Gottlieb 04251)” — William P. Gottlieb, public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- “Thelonious Monk, Minton's Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947 (William P. Gottlieb 06191)” — William P. Gottlieb / Adam Cuerden, public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- “Sarah Vaughan - William P. Gottlieb - No. 1” — William P. Gottlieb / Adam Cuerden, public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- “Django Reinhardt (Gottlieb 07301)” — William P. Gottlieb / Adam Cuerden, public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- “Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie, New York, N.Y., ca. May 1947” — Gottlieb, William P., public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- “Billy Strayhorn, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948 (William P. Gottlieb 08211)” — William P. Gottlieb / Adam Cuerden, public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- “Al Grey (Gottlieb)” — William P. Gottlieb / Adam Cuerden, public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- “Duke Ellington, Barney Bigard, Ben Webster, Otto Toby Hardwick, Junior Raglin, and Fred Guy, between 1938 and 1948 (William P. Gottlieb 11131)” — William P. Gottlieb, public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- “Ingelen Geographic tube radio - tuning dial (2360639895)” — Ricardo Reis from Lisboa, Portugal, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- “Broadcasting a radio play at NBC studio” — Unknown author Unknown author, public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- “Tuning a Radio” — SFootage, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- “12in-Vinyl-LP-Record-Angle” — Evan-Amos, public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- “Broadcasting records over the radio, 1940s” — Archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle, public domain, Wikimedia Commons
The faces on the records
William Gottlieb photographed the New York clubs between 1938 and 1948 for Down Beat and the Washington Post. The Library of Congress holds the negatives; the pictures are in the public domain.






