Nina Simone, Photographic session for first album cover for Colpix Records, "The Amazing Nina Simone," Philadelphia, 1959

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A black and white silver gelatin photograph of Nina Simone during a photographic session for Colpix Records, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1959. With her short dark hair curled, Nina Simone smiles in her seated position on a high wooden stool. Her legs are outstretched as she leans back slightly. She is staged atop a large dark photographic paper background roll, and wears a short sleeve floral patterned knee length dress and dark high heeled shoes with bows on them. The twin palm emblem of Palm Press, Inc. is imprinted at the bottom right of the photographic sheet.

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