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Jubilee Singers

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Orpheus M. McAdoo and Mattie Allen McAdoo papers

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 60
Abstract: The collection consists of material documenting the entrepreneurial and performance activities of Orpheus M. McAdoo as a member of the Jubilee Singers and director of the Virginia Concert Company and Jubilee Singers, as well as material relating to Mattie Allen McAdoo and the McAdoo and Allen families. Highlights include scrapbooks containing announcements, clippings, and ephemera for the Fisk Jubilee Singers Tour of Australia in 1886-1888 and "McAdoo's Virginia Jubilee Singers and Concert...
Dates: circa 1850-1966, bulk 1886-1936
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Orpheus M. McAdoo and Mattie Allen McAdoo papers

Photographs of prominent African Americans

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 76
Abstract: Photographs drawn from various collections in the James Weldon Johnson Collection. The collection includes predominantly images of prominent African American writers, cultural leaders, and entertainers, as well as photographs by important African American photographers. A small number of images document people and places outside the United States. The collection forms a visual record of artists, writers, actors, musicians, and politicians active chiefly in the United States from the 1920s...
Dates: 1875-1978
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Photographs of prominent African Americans