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.....
Paris: c. 1930. RPPC measuring 5 ½ x 3 ½ inches. A photographic portrait of Josephine Baker taken by Henri Manuel and published by AN Paris as number 66 in a series (other examples in this series are taken by other photographers). The verso is full of a letter in.....
New York and Washington: Various publishers, 1945–1955. A group of illustrated programs documenting mid-century performances of the dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist Katherine Dunham (1909–2006), one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century American dance. Trained in anthropology at the University of Chicago, Dunham conducted field research in Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique.....
Chicago, Illinois: Maurice Seymour, 1947. Five photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches. Maurice Seymour was the photographic studio of Russian immigrant brothers Maurice (1900–1993) and Seymour Zeldman (1902–1995), known for their ballet photography and for shooting celebrity subjects from Nina Simone to Judy Garland. Offered here are five photographs taken.....
Birmingham, Alabama: c. 1950s. Folded direct mail advertisement measuring 21 x 5 ½ inches, folded into six panels. A promotional mailer for the Booker T. Washington Business College, founded by A.G. Watson in Birmingham in 1939 in response to a shortage of typists and receptionists in his insurance and funeral.....
Rome, Via Tre Cannelle 16: September 1936 (Anno XIV). Monthly illustrated bulletin, quarto, pictorial wrappers, illustrated throughout. 6 ½ x 9 ½ inches. Italian promotional bulletin issued by Columbia Records highlighting newly released recordings for the Italian market, featuring a fantastic unrecorded illustration of Josephine Baker on the cover. Designed.....
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.....
Paris: 1930. Double sided sheet measuring 5 ½ x 8 ¾ inches, folded into four panels, all illustrated. An apparently unrecorded program documenting one of Baker’s defining early Paris triumphs, the lavish Paris Qui Remue revue at the Casino de Paris, a venue synonymous with large-scale spectacle during the interwar.....
Paris: c. 1930. Set of 36 miniature photographs in a heavy cardstock folded cover, bearing advertisements for Casino de Paris, Columbia Records, and Bakerfix. Issued at the height of Josephine Baker’s international celebrity and likely produced in connection with the Casino de Paris revue Paris qui Remue (c. 1930), this.....
Chicago, Illinois: Will Rossitter, 1907. Folio, 10 ½ x 14 inches. A scarce sheet for the song “Good-Bye Lou,” performed by Sissieretta Jones as Black Patti circa 1907. By the early twentieth century Sissieretta Jones (1868–1933), widely billed as “Black Patti,” had transitioned from her earlier international career as a......
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New York: Howley; Haviland and Co., 1898. Folio, 4 pp. Covers split, stamp from a Kalamazoo, Michigan piano store near publisher information, otherwise near fine, with the lithographic illustration very bright and attractive, very good overall. An illustrated sheet for “The Famous Black Moguls,” one of the opening choruses from.....
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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,”.....
Coney Island: c. early 1950s. 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver photograph. The group stands behind and beside a mock bar counter bearing painted signage reading “Souvenir from Coney Island” and “The Lost Week-End.” Behind them appears a backdrop sign for the “Zombie Café – Drinks on the house.” The.....