Letter: Nashville, Tennessee to Macon, Georgia, 1928 Mar. 5
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| Type: | Letters (correspondence) | Text |
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| Creator: | Bailey, James A. Hatch, C. R. |
| Title: | Letter: Nashville, Tennessee to Macon, Georgia, 1928 Mar. 5 |
| Date: | 1928 Mar. 5 |
| Description: | Letter from James A. Bailey of Hatch Show Print, a Nashville-based letterpress printing company that specialized in producing posters for country, blues, and jazz performers, to the manager of the Douglass Theatre, dated March 5, 1928, regarding a shipment of advertising material. Bailey reports that his company received instructions from the "Ma" Rainey Company to send two hundred posters to the Douglass Theatre express COD. He asks that the shipment receive prompt attention and directs the manager to settle with the "Ma" Rainey Company when they play at the Douglass Theatre. Document ID: dbr012. Digital image and encoded transcription of an original manuscript, scanned, transcribed and encoded by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2005, as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. |
| Subjects: | Douglass Theatre (Macon, Ga.) | Rainey, Ma, 1886-1939 | Hatch Show Print (Firm) | Hatch, H. H. | Hatch, C. R. | Blues (Music)--Georgia | Blues (Music)--To 1931 | Blues musicians--United States | Women blues musicians--United States | African Americans--Music | Musicians--Employment--Georgia--Macon | Theaters--Posters | Advertising fliers--Georgia--Macon | Macon (Ga.) | Bibb County (Ga.) | Nashville (Tenn.) |
| Contributors: | Middle Georgia Archives |
| Online Publisher: | [Athens, Ga.] : Digital Library of Georgia, 2005 |
| Original Material: | [1] p. | Manuscript held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records, 1906-1967, box 19, folder 163, document 7. |
| Rights and Usage: | Please consult the Middle Georgia Archives re: reproduction and usage. Cite as: [title of item], Theater Records Series, Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. Business Records, 1906-1967, Middle Georgia Archives, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia. |
| Related Materials: | Blues, Black vaudeville, and the silver screen, 1912-1930s (Digital Library of Georgia) GAGAL |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/dtrm/id:dbr012 |
| Related Institutions: | Digital Library of Georgia Middle Georgia Archives |
| Collection Information: | The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s: Selections from the Records of Macon's Douglass Theatre |