New York, New York: 1916-1926. 131 cards, most around 2½” x 4½”, a few larger folded to same. Generally very good: some with light to moderate wear, toning or spotting. This is a lively collection of tickets, song and dance cards for charity and entertainment events in New..... More
Xenia, Ohio: N. P., 1927. 11” x 13¾”. Broadside on thick card, printed recto only. Good: three heavy creases from vertical folds; two inch tear at center crease; moderate staining and discoloration at extremities. This is a broadside for a “Musicale” performance held in 1927 at the St. John's A. M...... More
Chicago: J.B. Wilson, [circa 1890s]. Cabinet card measures 6¼” x 4¼”; business card is 1¾” x 3¼”. Cabinet card good plus due to moderate edge wear and some surface loss; business card good with uneven horizontal crease. This is an exceptionally rare cabinet photograph along with a photographically..... More
This is a real photo postcard showing Claude Hopkins and Joe Louis. It was signed by Hopkins, an American jazz pianist and bandleader, as well as by the singer for his band at the time, Beverly White. The photo came from the estate of another of Hopkins' band members, the..... More
Chicago: 1920-1928. 88 cards, ranging from 2” x 3” to 6 ” x 4½”. Generally very good: some with light to moderate wear, toning or spotting. This is a lively collection of tickets, song and dance cards for charity and entertainment events in the Chicago area, many of..... More
[New York and New Jersey]: [circa 1973-2005]. 259 photographs (95 loose, 164 in labeled mylar sleeves) + 1 real photo postcard and 9 loose items of ephemera. Photos range from 3½” x 4¼” to 5” x 7” (most 4” x 6”, a few cut smaller), all but ten are color..... More
1984. This listing is for the funeral program of William James “Count” Basie who was a well-known jazz pianist, bandleader and composer. The funeral was set to take place April 30, 1984 in New York. The cover features a photo of Count Basie and the background has the sheet music..... More
[New York]: [Columbia Artists' Management], [1952]. Program [stapled wrappers] measures 11½” x 8¾”; album sleeves are 10” x 10”. Pp. [24] + three LPs in cardboard sleeves. Program good due to detached wrappers; otherwise very good with light wear; album sleeves are good due to heavy wear, records are scratched..... More
This is a signed photograph of Eddie Heywood who was an American jazz pianist and composer. Heywood signed the smiling photo to a “Nancy” and wrote “a wonderful person to know.” It was previously owned by the jazz trombonist Vic Dickenson. The photograph measures 7” x 5”. More
![Item #1617 [Jazz][California] Photo Album and Scrapbook of the Kern County Hot Jazz Society](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1617.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1512255759)
Bakersfield, California: 1961. 12¾” x 12¼”. Embossed imitation leather over boards, disbound scrapbook. 36 pages with 70 mostly black and white photographs and around 40 items of ephemera either pasted or laid in. Photos measure from to 3½” x 3½” to 3¼” x 4¼” and about half are captioned; some..... More
N.P. [circa 1946]. 27½” x 41”. Good: splits at old folds repaired with tape on verso; large chip to upper left corner; light dust soiling and a couple of small stains. This is a poster promoting several important Black entertainers that almost certainly relates to a 1946 short..... More
![Item #8018 [Program for a] Big Benefit Contest](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8018.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701614752)
San Francisco, California: [San Francisco Community Chorus], [1929]. 11” x 8”. Bifolium, printed all four sides. Pp. [4]. Very good: edges lightly worn and soiled; tiny corner crease; lightly spotted. This is an illustrated program for a benefit performance by “200 Ne*roes” which took place at the Dreamland..... More
[Detroit?]: N.P., 1956. 11¼” x 9”. Stapled thin card wrappers. pp. [52]. Good: five centermost bifolia detached; wrappers with moderate wear and a couple of small tears. This is a program for the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) 33rd annual convention which doubles as an important resource..... More
New York City: N.P., 1949. 10 7/8” x 8½”. Bifolium, printed all four sides. Pp. 4. Very good minus: moderately creased at old folds; a bit toned. This is an issue of a seemingly forgotten periodical that was created by and for high school- and college-aged African Americans..... More
[Port-of-Spain, Trinidad]: [N.P.], [1969]. 8¼” x 5 ”. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Pp. [24]. Very good: penciled price ($1) to top corner of front wrap; a few small dings and creases; the occasional scuff or spot. This is a rare publication promoting “current Calypso hits,” musicians and local businesses..... More
Ohio: 1917. This listing is a program for The World-Famous Williams' Colored Singers presented by The Tribe of Ephraim St. John's A.M.E. Church. The highly regarded, classically trained African American ensemble toured internationally in the early 20th century, helping to popularize Black spirituals and combat racial discrimination through music. The..... More
Detroit, Michigan: The H. O'Reilly Clint Co., [circa 1930]. 12¼” x 9¼”. Sheet music. Pp. 6. Very good with moderate wear and light dust soiling. This is the sheet music for a composition “dedicated to the Booker T. Washington Memorial, Detroit, Mich.” It features a full page illustrated image of..... More
Philadelphia: Osbourn's Music Saloon, [1840? ]. 13½” x 10 3/8”. Disbound. Pp. [3]. Very good: disbound, lightly toned, penciled annotations throughout. This is a rare piece of sheet music from an exceptionally important African American composer and bandleader, Francis Johnson. According to Eileen Southern in The Music of..... More
Chicago, Illinois: Alpha Kappa Alpha Office, 1966. 11” x 8½”. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Pp. 80. Good due to wrappers split at both staples, moderately soiled and chipped; internally very good with light staining to edges of a few pages. This is a rare book of sheet music that includes..... More
New Kensington, Pa. The Ramos-Harris Music Publishing Co, [1953]. 12” x 9”. Bifolium printed all four sides + loose printed leaf of music + laid in modern photocopy of funeral program of composer. Pp. 3. Very good: moderate edge wear and a few tears repaired with scotch tape; inscribed by..... More
![Item #9103 Souvenir of the Mystic Orchestra [manuscript illustrated cover title]. Eloise J. Roorbach](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9103_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1778858702)
[Mystic Connecticut?]: [circa 1894]. 8½” x 10¾”. 17 ribbon bound stiff card leaves. All but one page with handwriting and/or illustration; 15 pages with a portrait photograph glued down, most of which measure 5½” x 3¾”. Very good: first leaf detached, foxed and dust soiled; otherwise very good plus with..... More
![Item #4960 [Scrapbook of a Female Cellist and Artist]. Margaret Almira Vogel](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4960.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1726516365)
San Francisco Bay Area, California: 1925-1938. 11½” x 9” commercial scrapbook, cloth over boards, black string-tied, with 21 leaves and 4 professional 8” x 10” B&W photographs, 157 newspaper and magazine clippings, 43 programs, 15 letters and 16 pieces of other ephemera adhesive mounted both sides and laid in. Good..... More
![Item #8434 [Group of Sheet Music by Bert Williams]. Egbert Austin “Bert” Williams](https://langdonmanorbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8434.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729536526)
Various places: Various publishers, 1909, 1919-1922. Five songbooks. See description for details. This is a collection of rare sheet music written and/or “introduced by” Bert Williams, one of the first Black superstars of show business and an entertainment icon of his time. Many of the collaborators on the works on..... More