(ENTERTAINMENT MUSIC) Group of promotional photographs of t

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Sale 2697 - Lot 206

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Group of promotional photographs of the influential early gospel musician Elder Charles D. Beck. 5 photographs plus one photomechanical print, most about 8 x 10 inches, two smaller, with no photographer credits; minor to moderate wear, folds to the print. No place, circa 1930s-1950s

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Beck was a minister in the Church of God in Christ in Buffalo, NY, and was also a touring pianist and trumpeter whose recording career began in 1930. One of these photographs shows him at "Eld. Beck's 5th Radio Anniv." with a group of women; a sign memorializes the late president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Two have facsimiles of his signature. The print shows him standing at a radio microphone.

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