Bonnie and Semoura Clark black vaudeville photographs and ephemera, 1909-1958Clark, Bonnieeng48 photographs depicting predominantly black vaudeville acts, most of them unidentified, many of them inscribed to Bonnie and Semoura. Includes photographs of chorus girls, minstrels, and cross dressers; identified photographs are of Phil Black, Blaine & Brown, Cole & Johnson, Jerome and Thompson, Mack & Mack, John and Lila Moore, Stafford and Sammons, Gus Stevens, and possibly a young Jimmy Durante. There are three handbills for a ball, a party and a performance by Phil Black and Bonnie Clark, a program for the Pekin Theater, dated 1909, and two ink and wash drawings of Bonnie and Semoura Clark, dated 1913Bonnie and Semoura Clark, black vaudevillians who toured with the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA). The TOBA provided segregated entertainment for blacks in the South and Midwest. The Clarks act was probably comical, relying in part on cross dressing. Bonnie Clark was associated for many years with Phil Black, the originator of the Harlem drag balls.Container list available.