Two Clipped Magazine Advertisements for M. Sissieretta Jones’ “Black Patti’s Troubadours”.
Portland, Oregon: 1898–1899. Two double-sided clippings measuring approximately 7 ½ x 4 ¾ inches, both put together with tape. Matilda Sissieretta Jones (1869–1933) was an African-American opera singer from Portsmouth, Virginia. She studied at the Providence Academy of Music and the New England Conservatory in Boston. At the start of.....