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Detroit, Michigan: The H. O'Reilly Clint Co, 1930. Very good. 12¼" x 9¼". Sheet music. Pp. 6. Very good with moderate wear and light dust soiling. This is the sheet music for a composition "dedicated to the Booker T. Washington Memorial, Detroit, Mich." It features a full page illustrated image of Washington as well as striking cover art of "Lifting the Veil of Ignorance," a statue of Washington created by Charles Keck in the 1920s and which is on the grounds of Tuskegee Institute. We were unable to find any information about the music/lyrics or about the Booker T. Washington Memorial in Detroit for which it was composed, save one Detroit newspaper article found online that mentioned the "tiny Booker T. Washington Memorial Park, started in the 1920s by a group of Black lawyers." Rare documentation of a possibly lost memorial to Washington, coupled with previously unknown uplift music. A ghost of a project, with OCLC locating no copies; no mentions in numerous variants of Google searches, nor on… Read More

Xenia, Ohio: N. P., 1927. Good. 11" x 13¾". Broadside on thick card, printed recto only. Good: three heavy creases from vertical folds; two inch tear at center crease; moderate staining and discoloration at extremities. This is a broadside for a "Musicale" performance held in 1927 at the St. John's A. M. E. church in Xenia, Ohio. Professor William A. Sykes, pianist/organist, chorus director and head of the Conservatory of Music at Wilberforce University, served as accompanist for lyric tenor James S. Lucas and baritone Siljaum Earl Bauchamp (which was likely a typo for "Beauchamp"). Though the hometowns of the vocalists were listed on the broadside (New York City and Detroit, Michigan, respectively), Lucas and Beauchamp were soloists in the Wilberforce men's chorus. Professor Sykes had a long career in music education and performance, previously serving as Director of the Haven Conservatory of Music (part of an HBCU in Meridian, Mississippi) and as Music Director at Bennett College (an HBCU for… Read More

Bakersfield, California, 1961. 12¾" x 12¼". Embossed imitation leather over boards, disbound scrapbook. 36 pages with 70 mostly black and white photographs and around 40 items of ephemera either pasted or laid in. Photos measure from to 3½" x 3½" to 3¼" x 4¼" and about half are captioned; some of the ephemera captioned with context as well. Album good: disbound with toned leaves; photographs generally near fine or better, ephemera very good or better; lacking two photos. The Kern County Hot Jazz Society was founded in Bakersfield, California in July 1961. The group's purpose was for"Families [to] meet and enjoy modern Jazz music and playing music together" and their motto was "A Non-Profit Organization for the Prevention of Rock-And-Roll and Progressive Jazz. " This scrapbook documents the formation and progression of the KCHJS throughout 1961. It includes at least 30 performance photos, many noted with date and location. Other images show them participating in a parade and engaging in social… Read More

San Francisco, California: [San Francisco Community Chorus], 1929. Very good. 11" x 8". Bifolium, printed all four sides. Pp. [4]. Very good: edges lightly worn and soiled; tiny corner crease; lightly spotted. This is an illustrated program for a benefit performance by "200 Ne*roes" which took place at the Dreamland Auditorium in San Francisco in July 1929. The performance was staged as a competition between the Oakland Community Chorus and the San Francisco Community Chorus to decide who would represent San Francisco at a statewide chorus contest in Hollywood a few weeks later. The program boasted that audiences would be regaled with classic African American ballads, spirituals and "Plantation Melodies . . . As None Other Can Sing Them," and urged potential attendees to "Hear Them - 'You'll Be Surprised.'" The concert also featured African American singers Naomi McCulloughPharr and George Jones, reprising their performances from the 1929 film Hearts in Dixie. Per the film's entry on the… Read More

Chicago: Bowles Music House Record Print Shop, 1946. Very good. 12" x 9". Stapled self-wrappers. pp. [16]. Very good: wrappers dust soiled and with a few small chips. This is a program for the 14th Annual Session of National Convention of Gospel Choirs & Choruses Incorporated (NCGCC). The group exists to this day, and per its website was founded in 1933 when choir unions from Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati came together to adopt bylaws and elected Thomas A. Dorsey its first president. Not to be confused with the big band leader, Thomas Andrew Dorsey was a musician and composer who was also influential in the development of early blues music and served as the music director for Chicago's Pilgrim Baptist Church for 50 years. Called the "Father of Gospel Music" by some, and sometimes credited with creating it, Dorsey helped create a movement that popularized gospel blues throughout Black churches in the United States, which in turn influenced American music and society at large. This program is… Read More

New York: [National Association of Negro Musicians], 1952. Near fine. 4¼" x 11¾". Sign printed on thick card stock. Near fine with light edge wear. This is a placard for the National Association of Negro Musicians' 1952 annual convention held at St. Mark's Methodist Church at 139th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. We imagine it would have been used at a registration table for the gathering that was attended by 350 delegates from 48 states and included a performance by a 200 member chorus. The keynote for the conference was given by Ruth Whitehead Whaley, the first Black woman to graduate from Fordham University School of Law. She was the third-ever African American woman to be admitted to the bar in New York, and was the first in North Carolina. This item is offered by Langdon Manor Books, LLC, antiquarian booksellers. We package our items carefully, ship daily, and have a no hassle returns policy--your satisfaction is guaranteed. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of… Read More