5 Minute 5 String Banjo and Plectrum Course
Chicago: M.M. Cole Publishing House, 1927. 8vo, 18pp, color pictorial wrappers depicting a man playing the banjo. Minor creasing and a hint of soiling to covers. Very good plus.
Performance Arts
Apollo Selwyn & Co Lessees And Managers
[New York]: [1921]. 8vo, 24pp, art deco style color pictorial wrappers. Program for the theater at Broadway and 42nd street in Manhattan. Very good, bit of foxing and toning, small stain to upper margin of front cover.
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.
Chinese Theater Leaflet
China: 1948. Single leaf measuring 10.5 x 7.25", printed both sides with advertisements for a theater in China circa 1948. Very good, folded in center, creased and toned.
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.....
Concert by the Yale Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs on their Christmas Trip Nineteen Hundred and SIx
N.P. 1906. Oblong stapled pamphlet, 7 x 5", 6pp, beige wrappers with blue and gilt cover title. Program for a Christmas Eve concert in Chicago by the Yale Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs. Several creases through text block (wrappers and leaves fragile along creases at points), corner chipped, corner creased.....
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.
Ernani A Tragic Opera In Four Acts.
San Francisco: Francis, Valentine and Co, Circa 1880. 24pp, yellow wrappers. Good plus, soiling to covers, foxing and toning to pages, creasing.
Flagler Garden & Restaurant Menu Signed by Jazz Saxophonist Hal McIntyre
Miami: 1940s. Drinks menu from the Miami restaurant, autographed on the front cover by Hal McIntyre, one of the founding members of the Glenn Miller band. Ring stain to front, old tape along spine, soiling.
Flapperette Novelty Piano Solo by Jesse Greer
New York: Jack Mills Inc, 1920s. Large 4to, 4pp plus red and blue wrappers. Sheet music. Old tape over almost entirety of spine, sticker to front cover, soiling to covers.
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.....
Honolulu Symphony Orchestra George Barati Musical Directory Fiftieth Anniversary 1950-1951 Season
[Honolulu]: 1950. 10 x 6", blue pictorial covers, staple bound, 23pp. Program for the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra. With many local advertisements. Offsetting to covers, a bit of soiling, musty odor present.
The Hukilau Song Words and Music by Jack Owens
New York: Lombardo Music, Inc, 1940s-50s. Large 4to, 2pp, pink pictorial covers. Sheet music. Very good plus, hint of creasing.
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.....
Lantern Theatre Summer Season 1965
Dublin: 1965. Narrow 8vo, leaflet, 4pp, program for "Silk on the Sword Blade A Centenary Presentation of Plays and Poetry by W.B. Yeats". Very good, bit creased.
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.....
Pair of Photographs of Al Pearce and the Happy Go Lucky Gang
San Francisco: Alta, 1930s. Two black and white photos measuring 7 x 10" and 8 x 10", with printed caption on the back, one with a handwritten pencil note on back. Images show members of the band, popular on the San Francisco radio in the 1930s. One image has margin.....
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.