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(MUSIC.) JAZZ.
Silver print “real photo post card” of the Jenkins
Orphanage Band, Charleston S.C. with a later color post card and John
Chilton’s “History of the Jenkins Orphanage Bands.”
illustrated.
Harlem, New York, 1914; London, 1960
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A RARE PHOTOGRAPH OF ONE OF THE JENKINS
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ORPHANAGE JAZZ BANDS
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The Jenkins
Orphanage jazz bands were the “brainchildren” of Reverend Daniel Jenkins who founded an
orphanage for colored children in 1892. Reverend Jenkins had a brilliant idea how to raise
funds for the orphanage and give them a means of earning a living. He sent word out in
Charleston for any old musical instruments. He sought the aid of two local jazz musicians and
soon they had a band would quite literally play for their supper. As time passed there were sev-
eral such bands as the children grew and went out into the world.
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