Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 205

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Collection of gospel music, photographs, and ephemera. 125 items, various sizes; condition varies, with some of the published music quite worn; some inscribed or stamped by a variety of early owners. Various places, 1931-1956 and undated
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10 promotional photographs: one signed by the members of the Jubalaires; one signed "The Kentucky Singers"; and unsigned photos of The Gospel Crusaders of Pittsburgh; The Heavenly Four Singers of Cleveland; Levi Hansley and the Southlanders of Richmond; The Original 5 Blind Boys of Alabama; The Pilgrim Travelers of Los Angeles; and more.

6 illustrated promotional cards for Sunset Gospel Singers, Red Star Quartette, Rev. Odie Hoover, Jr., Rev. J.E. Jeltz, Rev. Roy Carter, and The Harmonizing Four, undated.

5 programs and handbills, for the Keystone State Quartette Singers Convention, 1940-1956; The Southerners, undated; and The Gospel Tones, 1958.

99 pieces of printed music, most of them on single octavo sheets by specialized Black-owned publishing houses, most notably Thomas A. Dorsey and Charles H. Pace. These include 15 written or published by Thomas A. Dorsey of Chicago, 1931-1942; 20 by Charles H. Pace / Old Ship of Zion of Chicago, 1934-1953 and undated; 20 by Martin & Morris of Chicago, 1940-1951; 16 by the Martin Studio of Gospel Music / Roberta Martin, Chicago, 1939-1956; and 28 by miscellaneous publishers.

6 compilations of music in pamphlet form: "Bowles Favorite Gospel Gems No. 4," Chicago, circa 1940; "Bowles Favorite Gospel Songs of Joy No. 8," Chicago, circa 1941; "Songs of the Roberta Martin Singers, Volume No. 3," Chicago, 1954; "Special Songs of Clara Ward and the Famous Ward Singers, Volume No. 1," Philadelphia, 1953; Rev. Herbert Brewster, "The Brewster Book," Philadelphia, 1954; and "National Baptist Song Special, Number One," Chicago, circa 1941.

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