A rare picture of Lady with her two Chihuahuas Chaquita and Pepe around late 1940’s early 1950’s. 

Promotional posters for the movie New Orleans

Lady photographed with her chihuahua Pepe in 1957 by Paul Hoefler.

Lady photographed by Paul Hoefler in 1957.

Lady in 1957.

Billie Holiday with her friend a pianist Jimmy Rowles in Los Angeles.

The year this photo was taken is unknown, but most likely taken in 1945 when they first met.

Song: All or Nothing at All
Artist: Billie Holiday
Album: All or Nothing at All (Verve, 1957) *
Personnel:

• Billie Holiday, vocal
• Ben Webster, tenor sax
• Harry “Sweets” Edison, trumpet
• Jimmy Rowles, piano
• Barney Kessel, guitar
• Alvin Stoller, drums
• Red Mitchell, bass 

*Note: All or Nothing at All, released in 1957, was Lady’s last album for Verve Records. Later that year in December, she would sign back with Columbia Records, where she made her first recordings over 20 years earlier.

An original document typed by Billie Holiday to Columbia Records to renew her contract in December of 1940.

Signed for approval by her manager Joe Glaser.

Billie Holiday in a portrait titled “Lady Day as Harlem Royalty” taken in 1942 by Marvin and Morgan Smith.

During this time she was deemed Lady Day and the Queen of Song.