(ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC) Group of musicians publicity photos

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Sale 2697 - Lot 228

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Group of musicians' publicity photos. 25 photographs, most around 8 x 10 inches; minimal to moderate wear. Various places, circa 1930s to 1970s

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Highlights include a youthful Cab Calloway (signed in 1932); Chick Webb and his Orchestra (died in 1939); Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong in a still from the 1947 film "New Orleans"; a sheet of contact proofs of Billie Holiday at home in 1957, shot by Burt Goldblatt; The Supremes; Dionne Warwick; and the Temptations.

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