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(RAGTIME.) BOONE, JOHN
WILLIAM, “BLIND.”
Blind Boone’s
Southern Rag Medley, No 1. Strains
From the Alleys * Blind Boone’s
Southern Rag Medley No 2, Strains
from the Flat Branch.
Five pages, and
seven pages including the covers, the latter
printed in large, bold red letters.
FINE
,
FRESH COPIES
.
Columbia, MO: Allen Music Co, 1908;
1909
[800/1,200]
John William Boone (1864-1927) was born
in a Federal militia camp near Miami,
Missouri on May 17, 1864, to Rachel
Carpenter ,a contraband slave. His father was a
bugler in the 7th Missouri State Militia
Cavalry (Union). Doctors removed both of
Boone’s eyes when he was six months old in
an attempt to cure his “brain fever” (meningi-
tis?). Boone had some formal training, but was
mostly self-taught. In 1880 he played at a
Blind Tom concert, gaining instant recognition.
These two “medleys” come from a period when
Scott Joplin and others had made Ragtime the rage.
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(THEATRE.) MINSTRELSY.
Christy’s Minstrels. Grand Provincial
Tour of 1865.
Red, white and blue
poster, 30
1
⁄
2
x 10 inches, matted.
AN
EXTRAORDINARY SURVIVAL
.
Birmingham, England, 1865
[2,500/3,500]
An exceptional poster for the world renowned
troupe. The show included a Burlesque section
and some circus-like acts, including the
“Celebrated Giant from New York,” a man 9
feet tall, and a demonstration of “Hair-
Brushing by Machine, and a Easy Shave,”
which must have been a strange skit indeed.
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