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AN EXCEPTIONAL COLLECTION (MUSIC.) SULLIVAN, MAXINE. Small personal archive of over 50 photographs, spanning approximately 1900- to 1960 * a certificate from the State of Pennsylvania, making March 15th as Maxine Sullivan Day * Maxine Sullivan's Olds Ambassador trumpet, in its case * a huge "Happy Birthday Maxine" card from Eddie Condon's nightclub in Manhattan, signed by dozens of people. Mostly real photo postcards with some larger and smaller, the birthday card 20 x 16 inches. should be seen Vp, vd, 1900-1970's
A collection of family photographs belonging to jazz singer/stylist Maxine Sullivan. Sullivan (1911-1987) born Marietta Williams, was active for half a century from the mid-1930s to just before her death in 1987. She is best known for her 1937 recording of a swing version of the Scottish folksong "Loch Lomond." Throughout her career, Sullivan also appeared as a performer in films as well as on stage. Sullivan was born in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and began her musical career in her native Pennsylvania performing in her uncle's band, The Red Hot Peppers--where she occasionally played the flugelhorn and the valve trombone in addition to singing. In the mid-1930s she was "discovered" by Gladys Mosier (then working in Ina Rae Hutton's big band. Mosier introduced her to Claude Thornhill which led to her first recordings made in June of 1937. She worked more or less steadily until quite late in life. The small photos and real photo postcards are unfortunately, like most family photographs, not identified, but Sullivan herself appears to be in several.
