(MUSIC) COTTON CLUB Archive of Cotton Club singer and chorus

Sale 2137 - Lot 295

Price Realized: $ 660

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800

"ACCLAIMED AS THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN HARLEM" (MUSIC.) COTTON CLUB. Archive of Cotton Club singer and "chorus girl" Alice Dixon, including photographs, clippings and telegrams; inscribed photographs from Duke Ellington, Claude Hopkins, Mary Lou Williams and others. Mostly 8 x 10 glossies, but with two large photographs; one of the chorus line from the Cotton Club, the other a composite built around a signed photo of Duke Ellington in a top hat. Vp, vd

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Alice Dixon sang with Jimmie Lunceford, Earl "Fatha" Hines and other bands in the heyday of the Harlem nightclubs.