Promotional card for a piano recital given by Eunice Waymon (Nina Simone): Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An advertising card for a piano recital performed by Eunice Waymon, later known as Nina Simone, at age 21. The grey card is rectangular with rounded corners and is printed in black ink. The text on the front of the card reads: [IN RECITAL... / EUNICE WAYMON, PIANIST / NEW CENTURY AUDITORIUM / One Twenty-four South Twelfth Street / Friday Evening, February 19, 1954 / at 8:30 o'clock / SUBSCRIPTION (INCLUDING TAX) $1.30 / SPONSORS / Philadelphia Branch N.A.N.M., Inc. / and Young People's Music Club]. The back of the card has no marks, printing, or inscriptions.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1954
• Printed by: Unidentified
• Subject of: Nina Simone, American, 1933 - 2003
• Subject of: National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., founded 1919
• Type: advertising cards
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 2 1/4 x 3 7/8 in. (5.7 x 9.8 cm)
• Place depicted: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Classical (Music)
• Topic: Composers (Musicians)
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Popular music
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2011.132.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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