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Buckley’s New Banjo Book: containing full and complete instructions for learning to play the...

Buckley’s New Banjo Book: containing full and complete instructions for learning to play the Banjo, with or without a teacher . . . Being the very best Selection of Banjo Music ever presented to the Public.

Boston: Oliver Ditson (copyright held by Firth, Pond & Co.), 1860. Cardboard covers. First edition. Collated and complete with all 80 pages. Illustrated card covers with cloth spine covering. Cover illustration of Buckley (not in blackface) sitting in a chair and playing his banjo. Worn spine and cracked hinges. Soiling..... More

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Letter from a young man in a small California timber town to a friend in Oakland about attending...

Letter from a young man in a small California timber town to a friend in Oakland about attending a dance dressed as a “nigger wench” and obtaining sheet music and “bones” for an amateur minstrel show

Camptonville, California: 1883. Unbound. This three-page letter is complete with its mailing envelope. The envelope is franked with a green, 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott A46) and bears a large, circular Camptonville postmark. Both are in nice shape. Transcript included. In this letter, W. M. thanks his Oakland friend..... More

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Small grouping of ephemera and artifacts from the infamous Cocoanut Grove night club where 492...

Small grouping of ephemera and artifacts from the infamous Cocoanut Grove night club where 492 people were killed in the deadliest nightclub fire in history.

Boston: circa 1940. Various. This lot consists of: 1) A 7” x 5” b/w photograph of an 18-member, primarily male, dinner party enclosed in a colorfully tropical Cocoanut Grove Melody Lounge souvenir folder that measures 8.5” x 6.5” (cover artist was Marty Sherman). 2) A Cocoanut..... More

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Small packet material relating to Tom Water’s piano-comedy, The Mayor of Laughland. Fred G....

Small packet material relating to Tom Water’s piano-comedy, The Mayor of Laughland

Philadelphia: The Nixon & Zimmerman Enterprises, 1907. Envelope or Cover. This lot consists of three items: a booking letter on illustrated letterhead, its accompanying illustrated advertising cover, and a second, different illustrated advertising cover. In the booking letter, Nixon humorously confronts a theater manager regarding a disagreement over a booking..... More

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Grouping of three mounted minstrel photographs and two minstrel music pamphlets belonging to a...

Grouping of three mounted minstrel photographs and two minstrel music pamphlets belonging to a member of an Ohio post of the Sons of Veterans of the United States

Cedarville, Ohio: circa 1915. One photograph, measuring 9.75” x 7.75”, shows an entire finely-dressed blackface minstrel company posed on an ornately curtained stage. A second photograph, approximately 7” x 5”, shows eight members of the company posed on the same stage carrying a drum, sabers, and pennants for Cedarville, Slippery..... More

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Small collection of programs and advertising flyers from regional African-American theater...

Small collection of programs and advertising flyers from regional African-American theater productions in Illinois

Champaign-Urbanna and Chicago, Illinois: 1970s-1980s. Unbound. There are six programs and flyers of varying sizes. All in nice shape, one with pencil notes. "Porgy and Bess." Starring legendary bass-baritone William Warfield and Bernice Fraction. Presented at the Festival Theatre by the University of Illinois School of Music and Krannert..... More

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