[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [MUSIC]. A collection of 79 photographs of jazz musicians, bands, and vocalists. Ca mid 20th century.
Sale 1118 - African Americana
Feb 28, 2023
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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1,200
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$882
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[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY] -- [MUSIC]. A collection of 79 photographs of jazz musicians, bands, and vocalists. Ca mid 20th century.
79 silver gelatin photographs featuring jazz musicians, bands, and vocalists including Sarah Vaughn, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Christian, Max Roach, Nat King Cole, Lionel Hampton, and others. Most approx. 8 x 10 in. or smaller, many being double weight gelatin silver prints contemporary to the 1960s, with several later copy prints of performers and bands from the 1930s-40s including Andy Kirk and His Twelve Clouds of Joy, King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, and others. Some with pencil inscriptions identifying subjects on verso.
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