A wonderful illustrated broadside promoting three appearances of twenty-six-inch tall Dollie Dutton in Meriden, Connecticut, and including five stanzas of verse addressed to her by the editor of a Maine newspaper. Dollie Dutton is shown here standing gracefully on her father’s hand, a pose that, dramatically highlighting her dainty stature.....
An apparently unrecorded illustrated broadside advertising a performance of the globe-trotting Knoxville College Quartet early in the blockbusting “race record” era. The historically-Black Knoxville College was founded a decade after the Civil War by the United Presbyterian Church “to provide the most thorough literary, classical and scientific training, together with.....
Scarce sheet music by the first Hawaiian composer to popularize Hawaiian songs with English lyrics, known as hapa haole music. This song is arranged for voice and piano and evidences a typical ragtime rhythm. Intended to be played at moderate pace, the song is dedicated to Elizabeth Myers, “California’s Favorite.....
A Spanish-language booklet detailing events organized on the occasion of the 1957 Jazz Record Grand Prix between February 10th and 18th, 1958, evidencing the strong Spanish interest in African American jazz in the post-war years. The 1957 Jazz Record Grand Prix was co-produced by the Hot Club de Barcelona and.....
A scarce promotional booklet centering on Clara Ward’s visit to the Holy Land, published at the zenith of her career. Featured here is Ward’s article “How A Visit to the Holy Land Changed My Life,” describing her inspirational visit to the Holy Land. Accompanying the article are images of Ward.....
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A collection of twenty-five spirituals performed by the well-traveled Williams’ Colored Singers. The photo-illustrations on the wrappers picture Williams’ Colored Singers in a variety of formations (as a trio, quartet, and octet) and with their suitcases while on tour in Europe. One inset portrait pictures the group’s manager, Charles P......
A rare and marvelously illustrated piece of sheet music inspired by a summer of hiking in California, written by a prolific composer of Civil War sheet music and featuring a brilliantly-colored bird about to take wing over the Yosemite Valley. A jewel-like red and yellow bird, its blue and green.....