Advertisement for a Maceo Pinkard record: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A white flier with blue text advertising the record album “The Famous Standards of Maceo Pinkard.” The Broadway Record Co., Inc logo and address is at the top of the flier. At the center of the flier in bold text is “MONOPHONIC L. P. / ALBUM.” The album song listings are at the bottom of the flier printed in white with a blue background. Handwritten on the back of the flier in blue ink is “Feb 6th, 1961 / Doc Wheeler – 3 / Fred Barr – 3 / Clara Ward – 2 / Frank Schiffman 3 / stage manager 1 / Apollo Theater / 125th St. / Album / 125 / 12 records / Bway / 125 / Mort Fega / W.E.V.D / opens Friday at Apollo Theater / 10th / Feb.”

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1961
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Owned by: Ginger Smock, American, 1920 - 1995
• Subject of: Maceo Pinkard, American, 1897 - 1962
• Subject of: Edgar Battle, American, 1907 - 1977
• Subject of: Broadway Records Co., Inc.
• Subject of: Frank Schiffman, American, 1894 - 1974
• Subject of: Clara Ward, American, 1924 - 1973
• Subject of: Mort Fega, American, 1922 - 2005
• Type: fliers (printed matter)
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 11/16 × 6 1/8 in. (22.1 × 15.6 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Advertising
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Jazz (Music)
• Object number: 2016.161.9
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Lydia Samuel Bennett
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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