• Florence Mills (1895-1927) was a pantomimist and singing and dancing comedian. She began her stage career at the age of six as “Baby Florence Mills” and later performed in vaudeville with her sisters as “The Mills Trio.” Her formidable singing and acting talents contributed to the artistic, popular, and financial success of many Black musicals of the 1920s, including Shuffle Along (1921), Plantation Revue (1922), From Dover Street to Dixie (1923), Dixie to Broadway (1924-25), La Revue Negre (1925), and Blackbirds (1926). Her most popular song is titled “I’m a Little Blackbird Looking for a Bluebird Too.”
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Florence Mills postcard

From Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press by Julia M. Allen and Jocelyn H. Cohen

  • Part of the Sisters of the Harlem Renaissance series, aset of 26 postcards in a folio album. Printed offset in black with black and turquoise border, 4 ¼” x 6”. ISBN 0-9623911-1-5
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