Occupational Index
The Occupational Index highlights those prominent individuals who are listed in the Biographical Index of The American Heritage Dictionary (1985). Individuals have been organized according to their primary description in the Biographical Index and are not cross-referenced to other occupational titles that may apply.
[Detail] Portrait of Ossie Davis, as Gabriel in The Green Pastures. 1951.
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[Detail] Portrait of Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois. 1946.
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[Detail] Portrait of Georgia O'Keeffe, New York. 1936.
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[Detail] Portrait of Truman Capote. 1948.
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[Detail] Portrait of Martha Graham and Bertram Ross, faces touching, in "Visionary recital". 1961.
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[Detail] Portrait of Ethel Waters, Cabin in the Sky. 1940.
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[Detail] Portrait of Carlos Chavez. 1937.
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[Detail] Portrait of Alicia Markova, Bluebird variations, Sleeping Beauty. 1940.
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[Detail] Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune. 1949.
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[Detail] Portrait of H.L. Mencken. 1932.
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[Detail] Portrait of Dizzy Gillespie (John Birks). 1955.
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[Detail] Portrait of Man Ray, Paris. 1934.
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[Detail] Portrait of Eugene O'Neill. 1933.
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[Detail] Portrait of Countee Cullen, in Central Park. 1941.
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[Detail] Portrait of Alexander Calder. 1947.
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[Detail] Portrait of Billie Holiday. 1949.
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[Detail] Portrait of Joe Louis, Greenwood Lake, N.Y. 1941.
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