Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 301

Price Realized: $ 938
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MUSIC.) Concert poster for the all-woman band Darlings of Rhythm. Poster, 22 x 14 inches, in card stock in red, blue, and black; moderate wear and soiling. Indianapolis, IN: William C. Powell Agency, 9 August [1946]
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Poster from a short-lived but important all-female jazz orchestra which toured the United States in the mid-1940s. A month before this performance, the band's bassist Toby Butler was arrested in Milledgeville, GA for breaking segregation laws, for performing as a white woman in an otherwise all-Black band. Band leader Jessie Turner remarked that "she didn't see why a few women from Mars would matter as long as the band is a good one" (Birmingham Weekly Review, 13 July 1946).