260 300
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(MUSIC.) VARIOUS.
Group of 16 pieces of early engraved music.
Uniform folio; most have been removed from larger volumes, thus with some light wear to
the spines.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
Vp, 1860s
[400/600]
Collection of sheet music with themes from the civil war and post-war with the usual black stereotypes
popular with the music publishers of the day.
“Little Sam” the black child marching with a broom, was an image used to caricature the black sol-
diers that entered the war in 1863, while “Slavery Chains are Broke at Last” and “Golden
Wedding” are pieces by black composers with more positive images.
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STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER.
TELE-
PHONE AND JUBILEE CONCERT. The
Marvelous Singing Telephone and Uncle
Tom and his Jubilee Singers.
Double sided
broadside advertisement, 9
3
⁄
8
x 5
7
⁄
8
inches, printed in
a variety of fonts; with reviews on reverse.
Kingston, New York: Daily Freeman,
1878
[600/800]
A VERY EARLY EXPLOITATION OF THE REVOLUTION
-
ARY NEW DEVICE
,
in this almost surreal concert
combining a Jubilee Singers [not the Fisk group] format
of old slave songs and shouts together with the sound
being transmitted via telegraph/telephone. In 1876 the
telephone had just been invented; Alexander Graham
Bell had secured the patent, but licenses for general use
had not as yet been granted.
Apparently the Singers would perform at some other loca-
tion and the music would then be piped into the concert
hall—in this case a church—via telephone. The text
informs us that the Jubilee Singers carry the telegraph
apparatus with them, there being only one such instru-
ment in the West.
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TROTTER, JAMES M[ONROE].
Music and Some
Highly Musical People.
352 pages of text, followed by 152
pages of printed music; damp-stain running through the bottom
margin of some pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece. 8vo, origi-
nal gilt-pictorial cloth, with title in gilt on the spine fresh and
bright.
INSCRIPTION ON THE SECOND FREE END
-
PAPER
.
Boston and New York, 1882
[400/600]
An inscription on the verso of the portrait reads: “Presented by Mr.
James M. Trotter to Mary E. Perkins. Dec. 3rd, 1882.” Another
inscription on the previous end-paper repeats the owner’s name, with yet
another name, William Morgan, Jan 2nd 1883. Yet a third name of
Charles A. Harrison appears on the rear end-paper. Includes original
compositions by a number of little known but important African
American composers, including guitarist Justin Holland, Creole Edmund
Dede, and Jacob Sawyer. Many of the titles are indicative of the post
Reconstruction period such as The Rays of Hope March by W F Craig,
and the Welcome to the Era March by Jacob Sawyer. LCP, Negro
History: 1553-1903, #205.
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