Chicago: Martin Studio of Music, 1944. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Heavy vertical crease, moderate soiling and staining, a few short closed tears, bottom edge of first leaf trimmed close, affecting a few words in the address of the publisher. Rare sheet music for the hymn "He Will Carry.....

New York: Alfred Scott, [1951]. 16pp. Publisher's pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor wear. Very scarce program for Anderson's March 25, 1951 performance at Carnegie Hall. The great contralto is pictured on the cover and her schedule of songs is listed on three different pages interspersed with advertisements and other information.....

[New York]: American Vanguard, 1935. Broadside, 11.75 x 8.25 inches. Moderate tanning, some edge wear with some short closed tears and a few tiny chips, some faint creasing and spots of stray ink. A rare handbill for an "Inter-racial Dance" held at a Jazz club called the Dunbar Palace in.....

[N.p., probably New York City: ca. 1945]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minor wear. A very rare, seemingly unrecorded program for a performance by legendary African-American contralto Marian Anderson at Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California. Anderson was accompanied by Franz Rupp at the piano for a host of classical.....

Alexandria, Va. [1950s]. Four programs, each a single sheet folded to make [4]pp., each printed in a different monotone color. Only two folded, minor ink notations to one example, minor even toning. A small but notable collection of advertising ephemera from the segregated Carver Theater in Alexandria, Virginia. The Carver.....

[Shreveport, La. 1969]. [64]pp. Original pictorial green wrappers, stapled. Substantial chipping to bottom edge throughout, mostly marginal, but costing some words on the first sixteen pages, noticeable staining to wrappers and bottom margin throughout, center two leaves detached. An unrecorded program for an African-American church in Shreveport that doubles as.....

[N.p., probably Boston: ca. 1920]. Photographically-illustrated trade card, on stiff cardstock, 3.25 x 5.5 inches. Minor wear and toning. A handsome promotional card for the Ancrum School Glee Club, an African-American singing group based in Boston. The card is comprised of a photographic image of twenty-two tuxedoed young African American.....

[Philadelphia? ca. 1920]. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet. Quarto. Tanned and somewhat brittle, minor edge chipping, some short closed edge tears. A seemingly unrecorded promotional touting the talents of the now-obscure Famous Suwanee River Quartette. The group, formed in Cleveland, Ohio around 1910 and led by John Gantt, traveled.....

Chicago: Theodore R. Frye, [ca. 1949]. [3]pp., on a single folded sheet. Old folds and creases, minor wear. A rare advertising circular issued by Theodore R. Frye Publishers of Chicago, touted here as "America's Favorite and Best Seller in Gospel Song Books." The main advertisement is for the three volumes.....

New York: New York Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, 1951. Three items stapled together at top left corner, together with a separate leaflet, totaling seven pages. Minor edge wear, one item with a short closed tear. Overall very good. A group of four printed items pertaining to an.....

Chicago: J.W. Middleton & Co., 1918. Tinted lithographic certificate, 8.25 x 11 inches, completed in manuscript. Old folds, minor dust soiling. A rare surviving stock certificate for a corporation established in 1916 by Emmett J. Scott and other well-intentioned but somewhat cinematically-naive individuals who wanted to make their own silent.....

Chatel-Guyon, France: Imprimerie SUAU, [early 1900s]. Broadside, 23.5 x 15.75 inches. Old folds, light wear and soiling. Slight loss to corners, pinholes. A woodblock-printed poster advertising a "Concert of Classical and Modern Songs (Negro Spirituals)" by the "excellent American singer" Charles Boucher. Charles Boucher is further described here as the.....

Miami: 1971. [3]pp. printed on rectos only. Original yellow illustrated covers, stapled. Minor wear, old folds, owner's name and addressed written on back cover. The program for the August 13, 1971 performance of The Many Faces of Eve by the Suitcase Players at the Miami Sheraton Four Ambassadors Hotel, sponsored.....