{"value"=>"<p>Of interest is the Performer's Historical File, which encompasses programs, letters, telegrams, contracts, articles, newsclippings, announcements, music, news releases, souvenir journals (some published by NAG), and photocopies of photographic scrapbooks (originals housed in Photographs and Prints Division). The extensive file for Kenn Freeman includes newsclippings, programs and related material about his performances in Anna Lucasta in New York and in London, his involvement as a dancer in Calypso Carnival as well as costume designs, many with an African based theme, for unidentified performances. Other performers represented in this subseries include Marian Anderson, Anita Bush, Minto Cato, Duke Ellington, Ida Forsyne, Bee Freeman, W. C. Handy, Sammy Hayward, Eva Jessye, Nettie Perry, Andy Razaf, Bill \"Bojangles\" Robinson, Ernest \"Baby\" Seals, Emmett \"Babe\" Wallace, Ethel Waters and Leigh Whipper.</p>"}