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James L. Allen was a photographer who ran a studio in Harlem from the 1920s to 1940s. There he photographed many of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance, including Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes.

From: Portraiture and the Harlem Renaissance: The Photographs of James Allen (1999)

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