Foto November 1937 Harlem Dancer Tondelayo (Wilhelmina Gray), Oneida Colony

Foto November 1937 Volume 1 Number 5 Harlem Dancer (and later club owner) Tondelayo (Wilhelmina Gray) featured in a two page spread Gray opened Tondelayo's Café Restaurant on 18 West and 52nd Street in 1944. Tondelayo's had the only all-Black show on Broadway This issue features stories on the polio epidemic with photographs of treatments and animal testing; sex crimes with photographs of Lawrence Marks, Simon Elmore, Salvatore Osido, William Ray, Verl Waller, and others; the Oneida Colony, doppelgangers, skyscraper window cleaning, blotto service, and others Via- willstraw.com United States – Foto magazine, 1937-1939 “The Dell Magazine Company launched Foto in 1937, In its first issue (June, 1937) Foto introduced itself as “the candid camera magazine.” Its original editor, West F. Peterson, was editor of numerous other Dell titles. Its Art Director, Abril Lamarque was a Cuban-born cartoonist and designer who served as art director at Dell from 1927 until 1941, when he went on to redesign The New York Times Sunday Magazine and establish a prominent post-war design firm. Please carefully examine photos. ************ All items sold are vintage finds sourced from estate sales and thrift stores in the Hollywood area of Southern California. Your purchase helps me continue to fund my artistic work as a photographer in Hollywood California. It also helps me to feed my increasingly finicky cat who now only wants the most expensive cat food