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Lot 144
Sale 2070 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana
Lots Open
Feb 14, 2025
Lots Close
Feb 27, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
400
Price Realized
$180
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Lot Description
[MUSIC-JAZZ]. Chicago Soul in Concert poster. [With:] Duke Ellington signed photograph.
Chicago Soul in Concert. Chicago, IL, May 1965. 22 x 14 in. poster promoting a benefit program for the Sullivan House, First Unitarian Church of Chicago. With musical acts highlighted below, including Hard Driving Blues, featuring Johnny Young (guitar), Jimmy Walker (piano), and Billy Boy Arnold (harmonica and bass), Art Hodes (jazz pianist), the Chariot Singers (gospel singers), and Erwin Helfer (blues and boogie woogie piano).
[With:] ELLINGTON, Duke (1899-1974), celebrated jazz pianist, composer, and band leader. Publicity photograph of Duke Ellington signed and inscribed in blue ink, "To Mrs. Franklin (?), In Appreciation, Duke Ellington." Chicago: Bloom, ca late 1920s. 10 x 8 in. silver gelatin photograph, "Duke Ellington" ink stamp on verso.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.

