Bandleader and composer James Reese Europe poses here with members of the Clef Club Orchestra in 1914. The Clef Club venue was founded by Europe in 1910 as a performance space, booking agency, and musicians' union for African Americans in New York's Harlem neighborhood.
Clef Club Orchestra
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Photo courtesy of Music Division, the New York Public Library
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