Raynors HCA 2016-10
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/21/2016
Photographic card, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches. c1915, Upper right corner bumped. Lightly foxed. Very good. Illustrated advertisement card, showing a photograph of African-American ragtime musician John William "Blind" Boone and his manager, John Lange, looking quite dapper in trench coats and hats. Boone rests his hand atop a cane, while Lange somewhat surreptitiously holds onto his arm for the photo. Boone's left hand is tucked jauntily into a vest pocket. The text below the photograph is reprinted from the KANSAS CITY SUN of Dec. 5, 1914. It reads: "The most astute, dignified and successful manager of the race, and the greatest living musical prodigy, who have journeyed together in the Blind Boone Concert Company thirty-five years, a record unsurpassed or equalled by any other company, white or colored in America. Both are philanthropic, generous and kind hearted to such a degree that they are loved by their race throughout the length and breadth of America." Blind Boone was the son of a former slave and a Union Army bugler, born at the end of the Civil War. At the age of six, a surgeon removed his eyes to relieve pressure on his brain during a fever. Despite this, he was a musical prodigy and became one of the great ragtime composers of the era.
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