Tuskegee: 1949. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 8 x 10 inches, with two typed letters, signed, one from Dawson and one from Rolla Foley. Identifying marks to verso of photograph, generally fine condition. A portrait of William L. Dawson, taken by P.H. Polk, during Dawson’s tenure at the Tuskegee Institute, where.....
Tuskegee: 1930s. Pair of silver gelatin prints measuring 9 ½ x 7 ⅞ and 7 x 5 inches. Residue to versos from removal from scrapbook, tear and crease to larger image, very good contrast. A pair of photographs from the prolific photographer Prentice H. Polk of a band led by.....
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New York: Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1880. Sheet music measuring 11 x 14 inches. 6 pp. With illustrated folio cover with Bland’s likeness and a stereotypical illustration of African-Americans at church. Fine condition. A scarce and possibly a first printing of James A. Bland’s “In the Evening by the Moonlight,” published.....
San Francisco, California: M. Gray, 623 & 625 Clay Street; Portland, Oregon: 101 First Street, [1873]. Lithographed pictorial sheet music cover printed by Grafton Tyler Brown; by special arrangement with W. A. Pond & Co. Folio. Good to very good with moderate edge wear, toning, and handling marks; contemporary William.....
Various publishers, 1930–1949. Three titles as follows: J’ai deux Amours. Fox-trot chanté par Josephine Baker. Paris: Éditions Salabert, 1930. 4 pp. Fine condition;. A tight, visually appealing trio of illustrated Parisian sheet music issues tracing Josephine Baker’s arc from Jazz Age sensation to postwar cultural legend. J’ai deux Amours—arguably her.....
Geneseo, New York: October 1973. Approximately 18 x 24 inches. Large newspaper advertisement for “Cultural Experience Weekend” at State University of New York, Geneseo, organized by the Activities Commission and Kuumba Weusi Watu, presumably student interest groups. Speakers include Dr. Charles Hurst, then President of Malcom X College in Chicago.....
Philadelphia: Firth, Meignen & Co., Publishers & Importers of Music and Musical Instruments, No. 41 Chestnut Street, [c. 1837]. Seven pages, complete, including dance figures. Folio sheet music. A rare early American operatic dance arrangement by Francis Johnson (1792–1844), widely regarded as the first published Black composer in the United.....
New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co., [c. 1914]. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover. 5 pp. (including cover). Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. A dance-era publication composed by James Reese Europe (1881–1919) and introduced by the celebrated ballroom team Vernon and Irene Castle during the height.....
New York: G. Ricordi & Co., [c. 1914–1915]. Folio sheet music, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches, illustrated pictorial cover. 5 pp. (including cover). A dance-era waltz by the influential African American bandleader and composer James Reese Europe (1881–1919), issued during the height of the early twentieth-century ballroom dance revival.....
New York: Jos. W. Stern & Co., 1914. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover. 5 pp. (including cover), 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches. Typical light edge wear; bright example with strong color. A classic dance-era publication composed by James Reese Europe (1881–1919) in collaboration with Ford T. Dabney.....
London: Musical Bouquet Office, 192 High Holborn; J. Allen, 20 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, [c. 1850]. Folio sheet music, 4 pp, 9 ½ x 13 ¼ inches. Lithographed title with portrait illustration. An early printed musical tribute to the Afro-Cuban singer Donna Maria Martinez Morena, one of the earliest Black.....
Hull and Nuneaton: W. J. Wellsted & Son, c. 1873–1874. Carte de visite portrait measuring 2 ½ x 4 inches. Albumen photograph on original mount with Wellsted’s printed royal arms and “By Special Invitation” crest, advertising the firm as “Photographers of the Prince & Princess of Wales,” with addresses at.....
New York: Mills Music, Inc., 1938. Folio sheet music, illustrated pictorial wraps. 9 x 12 inches. 6 pp. (including cover). A visually striking promotional sheet music cover issued in connection with the Cotton Club revue Cotton Club Parade (1938), featuring large photographic portraits of Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Cab Calloway.....
New York: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., 1915. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover featuring a photographic image of society dancers Maurice and Florence Walton. 5 pp. (including cover). Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. A striking ragtime-era dance publication for “The Tar-Heel Blues,” composed by the African American.....
Likely Kansas City: 1914. Trade card with photographic half tone illustration, 8 ½ x 5 ½ inches. An unusually large and visually direct promotional trade card pairing impresario John B. Lange with ragtime virtuoso John William “Blind” Boone (1864–1927), a foundational yet still underrecognized figure in American popular music. Boone’s.....
New York City: Gotham-Attucks Music Co., c. 1908. Folio sheet music, illustrated color pictorial cover with inset photographic portrait of the Robinson Trio. 5 pp. (including cover). Approximately 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches. An early sheet music publication from the African American musical Bandanna Land, the 1908 stage production.....
Columbia, Missouri: W.B. Alen, 1909. Folio, 13 ½ x 10 ½ inches, 9 pp. In 1909, Blind Boone (John William Boone) was an established touring pianist and composer whose concert career had already spanned more than two decades. Blind since infancy, he had trained at the Missouri School for the.....
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New York City: Handy Brothers Music Co., Inc., 1941. Sheet music measuring 9 x 12 ¼ inches. 8pp including covers. Covers with wear to edges and some wrinkling and folds, very good plus. Interior pages with some wear to edges, excellent. Sheet music for “We Are Americans Too” by Andy.....
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New York City: The Gotham-Attucks Music Company, 1906. Sheet music measuring 10 ½ x 13 ½ inches. 6 pp including covers. Wrinkling and small tears and chips to bottom margin, some wrinkling to top right. Manuscript pencil “H Williams” on cover, erased. Sheet music for “Build a Nest for Birdie,”.....
Boston / New York / Philadelphia / New Orleans: [1856]. Lacks stitches at spine, likely removed from a larger volume, lithograph in fine condition, one small tear to margin at final leaf. An uncommon American sheet music printing of the popular comic song.
San Francisco: 1858-1864. Broadside measuring 12 x 8.5. Some wear and archival tape repair to margin, fine contrast, excellent condition overall. An interesting broadside advertising the Lighte and Bradbuiry piano as well as Martin Guitars, printed for the Salvator Rosa music store at 615 Montgomery Street in San Francisco. Lighte.....
Southern California: 1920s. Limp leatherette album, oblong 4to measuring 10 x 7 inches, with seventy photographs, most measuring 4 x 2 ½ inches. Wear to binding, photographs with excellent contrast, very good to near fine overall. An energetic album of photographs belonging to one Eddie Jones, a fun-loving banjo player.....
New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co., 1865. Folio sheet music, lithographed pictorial cover. 6 pp. (including cover). 9.5 x 12.25 inches. A vivid piece of end-of-war political satire commemorating the capture of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, whose attempted escape in May 1865 quickly became the subject of popular ridicule.....
Pasadena, California: 1971. Approximately 22 x 28 inch painting on heavy cardstock with 7 x 9 inch photograph affixed. Locksley Hall was a Spokane-based psychedelic rock group formed in 1967, who nearly had a record deal with Epic in 1969. The project was scrapped and was not rediscovered until 1996.....
New York City: Leo. Feist Inc. and others, 1910–1917. Five pieces of sheet music (see full inventory below). Julian Eltinge (1881–1941) was the most commercially successful and popular female impersonator of his time. Beginning with drag performances in his adolescence, he developed a convincing portrayal of female characters—shocking audiences at.....