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(MUSIC.) JAZZ. Silver print 'real photo post card' of the Jenkins Orphanage Band, Charleston S.C. with a later color post card and John Chilton's 'History of the Jenkins Orphanage Bands.' illustrated. Harlem, New York, 1914; London, 1960
a rare photograph of one of the Jenkins' Orphanage Jazz Bands The Jenkins Orphanage jazz bands were the 'brainchildren' of Reverend Daniel Jenkins who founded an orphanage for colored children in 1892. Reverend Jenkins had a brilliant idea how to raise funds for the orphanage and give them a means of earning a living. He sent word out in Charleston for any old musical instruments. He sought the aid of two local jazz musicians and soon they had a band would quite literally play for their supper. As time passed there were several such bands as the children grew and went out into the world.
