Booklets, postcard and programs relating to Black spirituals and folk songs, Gospel hymns, Black college songs and a WPA Black chorus in the first four decades of the 20th century. Frederick J. Work, ed. Folk Song of American Negro. [Fisk University], Nashville, Tenn., 1907. Intro. By John W. Work, Jr. 96 pp. Original wrappers. Williams Jubilee Singers Touring Europe. Color photo postcard, postally used, dated 1912. E. C. Deas. Songs and Spirituals of Negro Composition, Also Patriotic Songs, Songs of colleges and College Fraternities and Sororities. Chicago, 1928. 64 pp. Original wrappers. Promotional for Overton-Hygienic Mfg. Co., a Black business started by an ex-slave, the largest manufacturer of cosmetics for Black women before Madame C.J. Walker’s cosmetics empire. Includes official college songs of historically Black colleges Lacy, Floyd H. The Cleveland Coloured Gospel Quintette…A Brief Narrative… Scotland, 1937. 47 pp. booklet in original wrappers with frontis. portrait of the 5-member band that toured Europe during the Depression. Program for Northern California WPA Negro Chorus, Greek Theater at UC Berkeley, July 20, 1941. 1 pg. Performed 14 spirituals, two songs by Schubert and “Ole Man River” from Show Boat. The Chorus had gained popularity after performing in an all-Black “Swing Mikado”, a Gilbert and Sullivan spin-off, at the Golden Gate Expo on San Francisco's Treasure Island in 1939, Pope, Marguerite. A Brief Biography [obituary] of Robert Nathaniel Dett [Hampton Institute Press], Virginia, ca. 1943. 6 pp, original wrappers. A rare imprint. With a signed photograph of the author, a music student at the Black Virginia college. 1944, and an undated program for a concert by the Hampton Institute Choir, conducted by Dett, aboard a ship sailing to Europe around 1931. Dett was one of the most successful African-American composers of the mid-20th century, noted “for his use of folk songs and spirituals for choral and piano compositions in the romantic style.” As a pianist and choir director, he performed at Carnegie Hall and at the Boston Symphony Hall.
Booklets, postcard and programs relating to Black spirituals and folk songs, Gospel hymns, Black college songs and a WPA Black chorus in the first four decades of the 20th century. Frederick J. Work, ed. Folk Song of American Negro. [Fisk University], Nashville, Tenn., 1907. Intro. By John W. Work, Jr. 96 pp. Original wrappers. Williams Jubilee Singers Touring Europe. Color photo postcard, postally used, dated 1912. E. C. Deas. Songs and Spirituals of Negro Composition, Also Patriotic Songs, Songs of colleges and College Fraternities and Sororities. Chicago, 1928. 64 pp. Original wrappers. Promotional for Overton-Hygienic Mfg. Co., a Black business started by an ex-slave, the largest manufacturer of cosmetics for Black women before Madame C.J. Walker’s cosmetics empire. Includes official college songs of historically Black colleges Lacy, Floyd H. The Cleveland Coloured Gospel Quintette…A Brief Narrative… Scotland, 1937. 47 pp. booklet in original wrappers with frontis. portrait of the 5-member band that toured Europe during the Depression. Program for Northern California WPA Negro Chorus, Greek Theater at UC Berkeley, July 20, 1941. 1 pg. Performed 14 spirituals, two songs by Schubert and “Ole Man River” from Show Boat. The Chorus had gained popularity after performing in an all-Black “Swing Mikado”, a Gilbert and Sullivan spin-off, at the Golden Gate Expo on San Francisco's Treasure Island in 1939, Pope, Marguerite. A Brief Biography [obituary] of Robert Nathaniel Dett [Hampton Institute Press], Virginia, ca. 1943. 6 pp, original wrappers. A rare imprint. With a signed photograph of the author, a music student at the Black Virginia college. 1944, and an undated program for a concert by the Hampton Institute Choir, conducted by Dett, aboard a ship sailing to Europe around 1931. Dett was one of the most successful African-American composers of the mid-20th century, noted “for his use of folk songs and spirituals for choral and piano compositions in the romantic style.” As a pianist and choir director, he performed at Carnegie Hall and at the Boston Symphony Hall.
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