Sale 2503 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 28, 2019

351 351 c   (MUSIC.) Franklin, Aretha. Her autograph on a 20th Century Fox document. Document Signed, 3 1 / 2 x 8 1 / 2 inches, 2-sided printed form completed in manuscript; tipped to mat on top edge verso, 2 holes punched for filing; matted and framed with a circa 1968 press photograph of Franklin and its accompanying wire caption. Los Angeles, CA, 23 December 1971 [400/600] A tax document which the late Queen of Soul signed for the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, naming her booking agency on verso, the pioneering Queen Booking Corporation. It most likely relates to the television classroom drama Room 222; Franklin made a guest appearance which aired on 14 January 1972. 352 c   (MUSIC.) Poster for a “Summer Vacation Jam Rap Session & Dance” featuring Too Short and Gangsta Pat. Poster, 28 x 22 inches, printed in yellow and black on thick card stock; moderate wear including two vertical creases, several staple holes, and two punctures, small white paint splotch near lower edge, minor foxing. Memphis, TN, 8 June [1991] [500/750] The rapper Todd Anthony “Too $hort” Shaw came to fame in Oakland in 1985 as one of the early leaders of the West Coast hip hop scene. Memphis rapper Patrick “Gangsta Pat” Hall’s first release was in 1991. This boxing-style poster for a show at Club Paradise in Memphis apparently dates from that same year, when June 8 fell on a Saturday. 352