(MUSIC) Batson Flora Flora Batson the Greatest Colored Singe

Sale 1961 - Lot 302

Price Realized: $ 690

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(MUSIC.) Batson, Flora. Flora Batson, the Greatest Colored Singer in the World! Letterpress theater broadside, with a vignette portrait of the singer, 14x8 1/2 inches; light toning overall. Chicago, 1893

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Flora Batson (1864-1906) was known as the "double-voiced queen of song" because of her extraordinary range. In 1887 she married John Bergen, the white manager of her first musical company. This broadside lists scores of growing reviews from every part of the country.