Image: Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1938 publicity photo with guitar)
Description: Publicity photo of American musician Sister Rosetta Tharpe posed with a guitar in 1938.
Title: Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1938 publicity photo with guitar)
Credit: Scan via James E. Arsenault & Company. Cropped and retouched by uploader; see upload history below for unretouched original.
Author: James J. Kriegsmann
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