(MUSIC) Group of Hutchinson Family tickets and ephemera

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(MUSIC.) Group of Hutchinson Family tickets and ephemera. 5 items, various sizes, most about 2 x 4 inches, and one 6 x 4 inches; the four smaller cards spot-mounted to a loose scrapbook sheet, minor wear. Vp, circa 1860s

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The Hutchinson Family Singers were perhaps the earliest precursors to the American rock band. A singing group drawn from a New Hampshire family of 11 brothers and 2 sisters, they began performing in 1840 and soon established themselves as the first nationally popular American singing group. They wrote much of their own material, some of it promoting progressive causes such as abolitionism and women's rights. Circa 1861 they split into two groups, with the "Tribe of Asa" performing mostly in the western states. Offered here are: 2 different formats of complementary tickets for "Adult gentleman and lady."
Another ticket reading "This slip, being signed by your teacher and presented at the door, will admit one pupil to Hutchinsons' Concert upon the payment of the scholar's price."
Business card of E.E. Johnson as business agent for the "Tribe of Asa."
Business card of Edward Eli Johnson as advance agent for Slayton's Lyceum Bureau in Chicago.
Most of these pieces bear the name of the group's longtime agent Edward Eli Johnson (1823-1895) of Painesville, OH, and 4 of the cards are spot-mounted on a sheet stamped "from F.G. Johnson, Painesville, Ohio." Frank Goldsmith Johnson was Edward's son, born in 1867.