Billie Holiday, Eric Dolphy (pictured, top), Louis Armstrong, Eartha Kitt, Ella Fitzgerald, and Dizzy Gillespie, along with photos of amateur musicians performing in their local communities ...

The new collection includes the earliest known photo of Billie Holiday—a posed studio shot taken in 1917 ... Gabrielle Dean Curator of rare books and Manuscripts, Sheridan Libraries Jackson, a fourth ...

THE COLLECTION CONSISTS OF A BABY PHOTO, A PICTURE OF HER FATHER ... OR A POLICE REPORT ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED TO BILLIE HOLIDAY OR, YOU KNOW, A LETTER, A POSTCARD, A A BIRTHDAY CARD ...