Bledsoe, Jules - Signed Photograph 1931 Autographs Singers Letters Postcard with his image

Postcard with his image

shown as Manrico in Il Trovatore

Beautiful lot of 18 vintage unsigned photographs of the soprano

Italian tenor (1875-1952)

all from the period 1920-1926

Bledsoe, Jules - Signed Photograph 1931 Autographs Singers Letters Postcard with his imageAmerican 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.