African American singers -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Orpheus M. McAdoo and Mattie Allen McAdoo papers
Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 60
Overview:
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