Bledsoe, Jules - Signed Photograph 1931 Autographs Singers Letters Singers names are: Adolphe Duchesne

Singers names are: Adolphe Duchesne

Beautiful lot of 18 vintage unsigned photographs of the soprano

all from the period 1920-1926

ALSO INCLUDED is an unsigned black-and-white modern-print photograph of the conductor

Signed photo of the German tenor (1915-1986) shown in role

Bledsoe, Jules - Signed Photograph 1931 Autographs Singers Letters Singers names are: Adolphe DuchesneAmerican baritone and composer (1897 1943), the first African American artist to succeed in Broadway, getting regularly hired, sang in the original production of Jules Kern's Showboat in 1927. Signed photograph, shown as himself, inscribed and dated in 1931. Stamped on verso by photographer Charles A. Braun, Chicago. Size is 8 x 10 inches, several small creases on edges, otherwise in very good condition.