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AWONDERFUL ASSOCIATION
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(MUSIC.) ARMSTRONG, LOUIS (“SATCHMO”).
“Best wishes to Jackie
Mably my very dear friend, from Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong.”
8 x 10 silver print
photograph with signed sentiment written in green ink; very slight wrinkle to the bottom
right corner, not affecting the image.
Np, circa 1940s-50
[1,000/1,500]
WARMLY INSCRIBED TO THE FAMOUS COMEDIENNE
,
JACKIE
“
MOMS
”
MABLY
.
The
photograph shows Armstrong standing in front of a fireplace over which hangs a large mirror,
on which he has written his sentiment. Jackie “Moms” Mabley, born Loretta Mary Aiken
(1894-1975), was an American standup comedienne and a pioneer of the so-called “Chitlin’
Circuit” of African-American vaudeville. One of twenty children of a family in Brevard, North
Carolina, Mably was known for her hilarious off-color routines.