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Calloway, Cab

Three Promotional Photographs and Signed Menu from The Cotton Club.

New York: 1940s-1950s. Three photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches, menu measuring 10 x 3 3/4. Cab Calloway and his band began performing at the Cotton Club in 1931, enjoying an initial three year stint with many sporadic returns in the subsequent decades. Calloway’s manager, Irving Mills, played a large.....

Price: $450.00

Eula, Joe; The supremes

The Supremes at Lincoln Center Philharmonic Hall. Friday, October 15, 1965.

Lithograph poster in colors. Signed in the plate, l.l. Sheet: 38” x 24 ⅞. Creases to lower right quadrant, wear to top and bottom margins, pinholes to corners, very good condition overall. The Supremes were at the height of their popularity when they performed at Lincoln Center’s Philharmonic Hall in.....

Price: $400.00

[Jazz] Bradley, Jack

Seven Photographs of Jazz Musicians.

New York, et al. 1940s-1960s. Five 8 x 10 and two 5 x 7 inch gelatin silver prints, with Bradley’s estate marks to versos. Jack Bradley was a Cape Cod native who, after graduating from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, fell in love with Jazz after seeing Louis Armstrong perform at.....

Price: $1,750.00

Jefferson, Maceo

Twelve Compositions by Maceo Jefferson [with] Photograph of the Plantation Orchestra, Featuring Jefferson [with] A Signed Note by Jefferson, c. 1964.

V.p. 1920s-1960s. Photograph measuring 8 x 10 inches, compositions measuring 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches. Well preserved, nearly fine with some normal toning. Maceo Jefferson was a jazz banjoist and guitarist from South Carolina who began his career in the 1920s playing with Roscoe Lee, Lucille Hegamin and Ethel.....

Price: $875.00

Kalischer, Clemens

Collection of Nine Photographs Taken at the Music Inn, Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the 1950s, including Portraits of Mahalia Jackson, Max Roach, and Others.

Massachusetts: 1950s. The Music Inn was founded on the estate of the Countess de Heredia in 1950 by a young couple from New York City who wished to bring the culture of New York to Berkshire County, where it was met with a very lukewarm response from the local residents.....

Price: $3,500.00

[Music] [Abolition] Fenellosa, Manuel

Emancipation Hymn. Composed and Dedicated by Permission to the Salem Union League.

Boston: Oliver Ditson and Company, 1863. First Edition. Manuel Fenellosa and his brother-in-law Manuel Emilio came to the United States from Spain in 1836 aboard the SS United States. They settled in Salem, Massachussetts, first forming a band and then a music school. They were friends of the publisher John.....

Price: $1,000.00

[Music] [Women’s Suffrage] [Hutchinson Family Singers] John Hutchinson

Souvenir: Song of Prophecy. [Illustrated Broadside]

Chicago: 1893. Broadside, 11 ¾ x 5 ½ inches. John Hutchison, patriarch and leader of the Hutchinson Family Band, was hired by the World’s Fair Committee to perform as one of the “Wonders of America.” This broadsheet, unrecorded, is a souvenir of his performance from the fair, in which he.....

Price: $450.00

[Soul Music]

Collection of Seventeen Publicity Photos of Performers from the Golden Age of Soul Music, circa mid-1960s.

California and New York: 1960s. Silver gelatin prints on glossy stock, most 8 x 10 inches. A fine collection of press photos from an amazing period in American music, with many classic soul singers included, many of whom were represented by the William Morris Agency. Subjects include: Clyde McPhatter, Ketty.....

Price: $675.00

Toscanini, Arturo; Various Composers of Note

An Archive of Material and Correspondence from the Toscanini Estate Including a Draft of “To the People of America,” with Notes in Toscanini’s Hand.

Various Places. Most 1940s-1950s, various formats. A wide-ranging collection of Toscanini material, found amongst his scores in the estate of his grandson Walfredo. The highlight is a late draft of his speech “To The People of America,” an important document in Italian-American history that was printed in Life Magazine during.....

Price: $3,500.00

Van Vechten, Carl

Suite of Fifteen Images of African-American Singers, Dancers and Performers including Ethel Waters, Eartha Kitt, Joyce Bryant, Diahann Carroll, Matilde Dobbs, Diana Sands, Darmen de Lavallade, Josephine Premice and Reri Grist.

New York: 1838-1859. First Edition. Silver gelatin photographs on postcard stock, 5 1/2 x 3 /12 inches, all with Van Vechten’s embossed stamp and inventory numbers to versos, two with Van Vechten’s handwriting and cancelled stamps to versos. Matted and housed in an archival box. Near fine overall with some.....

Price: $6,500.00
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