Catalogue OF THE Old Folks' Singing-Choir, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF Mr. Cyrus Thurston, AT THE TOWN HALL, FITCHBURG
Fitchburg, Massachusetts: 1857. 8vo, 4pp, printing the members of the choir and their ages, mostly people in their 30s-60s.
Performance Arts
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Cleveland Troubadours Light Opera Company Scrapbook
Cleveland, Ohio: 1930s. Scrapbook measuring 11.5 x 8", contianing approx 18 ephemeral items and 4 photos, many laid in, some pasted in, plus many newspaper clippings. Includes signed programs, company correspondence, broadsides, and photos of costumed performers (two measuring 8 x 10"). A collection of programs, broadsides, and typescripts relate.....
Collection of Ephemera for Minstrel Shows Put on by the Louisville Railway Company
Louisville, KY: 1926-31. Four items relating to minstrel shows put on by a subdivision of the Louisville Railway Company. Includes the following: 1) Three broadsides measuring 9.5 x 6" each. Two are for a 1930 minstrel show (one is a duplicate), and one is for a 1931 show. Creased, foxed.....
Constitution of the Chinese Dance and Drama Group
San Francisco: the Group, 1960. Single 14 x 8.5" sheet, mimeographed on one side from 46 lines of handwritten, vertically oriented Chinese text. Constitution of the club, based in San Francisco's Chinatown, which emerged from the Chinese American Democratic Youth League and the Chinese American Youth Club, organizing plays based.....
Dole's Opera House. Thursday Eve'g, May 21, 1885. Gussie Cottlow Infant Pianist. Programme.
[Mattoon, Illinois]: 1885. Broadside measuring 8 x 4.5", for a performance by a child pianist. Toned with a couple of small tears and tiny chips.
Four Large Cabinet Photographs of a Minstrel Performance in Ohio
Fremont, Ohio: C.P. Haas, 1894. Four mounted albumen print photographs, each measuring 8.5 x 6.5", on slightly larger card mounts. Printed below the images is the text: ""FREMONT CYCLING AND ATHLETIC CLUB AMATEUR MINSTRELS. MARCH 8, 1894 / PHOTOGRAPHED BY C.P. HAAS." The images depict a blackface minstrel performance on.....
Illinois Theatre Souvenir Programme Dedicatory Performance Charles Frohman Presents Julia Marlowe in "Barbara Frietchie"
Chicago: Rand, Mcnally & Co, 1900. 8vo, white cloth with gilt title, 45, [16] pp. Special souvenir program for the first performance at the recently completed Illinois Threatre, build for producer Charles Frohman. Considered a gem of Beaux-Arts architecture and "absolutely fire proof", the theater cost over a quarter million.....
Large Broadsheet Advertising a Medicine Show by the Modern Minstrels
No Place of Publication: Circa 1905. Bifolium, measuring approx 22.5 x 16", folding out to 22.5 x 32", 4pp, printed on green paper. A large broadsheet for the "Modern Minstrels" a touring vaudeville and minstrel show promoting patent medicines offered by the Modern Remedy Co. Some toning/discoloration, chips around edges.....
The Making of South Carolina A Historical Pageant Presented by The Students of Winthrop College
Rock Hill, South Carolina: Record Printing Company, 1921. 8vo, 58pp, stiff card wrappers with gilt lettering, illustrations from photographs. Finely printed script for a theatrical pageant on the history of South Carolina by the women of Winthrop College, founded as an educational school for teachers. The performance featured a huge.....
Paul Robeson Assisted by William Schatzkamer: Pianist
1946. 8v, folding leaflet, 4pp. Program for a concert featuring Paul Robeson, the acclaimed African American bass baritone concert artist and actor, a presentation of the Pennsylvania State College Artists' Course. Pencil annotations throughout. Offsetting, creasing, three 1.5 inch closed tears along lower corner.
Photo Album Belonging to an African American Jazz Saxophonist
1950s-60s. 4to, green spiral bound album binding containing 38 photos on sticky leaves, including eleven 8 x 10" photos, documenting the music career of a Jazz saxophonist names Jean Toussaint. Includes many performance photos that appear to have been taken in nightclubs, likely in New York City (records indicate that.....
Photograph Album Depicting a Smith College Theatrical Performance
Smith College: 1904. A collection of 46 photographs pasted into a black album binding measuring 10.5 x 7.25", with card on back of front cover reading "Flora Juliet Borley Smith 1904 Lady of Lyons 1902." The images depict scenes from the 1902 play, Lady of Lyons, put on by an.....
Photograph Album Documenting a Touring Jazz Band Based in PIttsburgh, PA
Various Places: Circa 1923-25. A collection of 190 black and white photographs pasted into a black cloth album binding, most images captioned in the margins. The album belonged to a young woman with the last name Edwards, who was married to a musician with the Ive Fiscus' Orchestra, a Pittsburgh.....
Photograph Signed by All Four Members of Paul Robi's World Famous Platters
Hollywood, Ca: 1976. Photo measuring 8 x 10" with typed caption, signed by all four members of the famous African American vocal group. Together with another photo of the group measuring 5 x 4" that is possibly signed by Paul Robi. Smaller photo creased.
See Brother See A Favorite Song Sung In The Opera Of The Children In The Wood
New York: Printed for G. Gilfert & Co, Circa 1795. Folio, 2pp. Early American sheet music, printing a song from the Samuel Arnold opera performed in New York in 1795. To verso someone has penned a few bars of a song called "The Lovely Spring" in a contemporary hand. Toned.....
Theatre Presented by the Agora Society...A Patriotic Play called, The Pretender
Wellesley, MA: 1920. Broadside measuring approx 13.5 x 9.5", advertising a play at Wellesley College in 1920, presented by the Agora Society. Creased, bit toned, torn and chipped along edges.
Women Extraordinaire El Cortez Hotel San Diego, California "That's Entertainment" 1975
San Diego: 1975. Quarto, 16pp, stapled wrappers. Souvenir program for a performance by "Women Extraordinaire", a San Diego based African American women's dance troupe "endeavoring to make Black Culture a living Reality in our City and nation," according to a message by the group's President printed within. The last two.....
Absolute Pitch.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1939. First edition, first printing. Octavo, orioginal red cloth boards, titles to spine and front cover black, illustrated endpapers, in the dust jacket. Black and white illustrations throughout. An excellent copy with the previous owners signature to front endpaper, in the dust jacket with.....
Howdy Judge
Nashville: McQuiddy Press, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 108pp, blue cloth with gilt lettering. Book of courtroom anecdotes by the radio country music star and founder of the grand ole opry. About very good with staining and discoloration to covers, toning to pages.
My Many Lives.
New York: Boosey and Hawkes, 1948. First edition, first printing. Small quarto, original blue cloth boards, titles to spine and front cover in silver, with the dust jacket. A very good copy with the cloth edges lightly soiled, in the toned dust jacket with minor wrinkling to front panel, milkd.....
Sleight of Hand
Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Fleming Book Company, 1946. Fourth Edition. 9.5 x 6.75", red cloth with gilt lettering, yellow dust jacket, xiii, 400 pp, 131 illustrations from drawings by Jeanne McLavy. "The standard textbook on how to become a magician. Sleight-of-hand feats and tricks with apparatus for amateur and professional.....
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