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Rare Frank Matsura Carolinian Jubilee Singers Real

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Rare Frank Matsura Carolinian Jubilee Singers Real Photo Postcard, ca 1910

"Carolinian Jubilee Singers." Frank Sakae Matsura (???, 1873-1913): [Washington State], n.d., ca December 1912. Titled and signed "F.S.M." in negative. Image depicts the troupe, consisting of seven African Americans singers dressed in heavy winter coats with suitcases at their feet posing beside a stagecoach.

The Original Carolinian Jubilee Singers, noted as one of the oldest jubilee companies in existence by the Indianapolis Recorder in a March 11, 1911 article, traveled all over the country to perform. The singers staged concerts in Grangeville, Idaho on December 5, 1912, and in Roseburg, Oregon on January 1, 1913, which means they passed through Washington state at some point during December 1912. Though there is no mention of them in Washington newspapers during this time, it explains how they were photographed by Frank Matsura, a well known Japanese-American photographer who worked exclusively in Washington State from 1901-1913. Image does not appear in the extensive Frank S. Matsura Image Gallery at Washington State University.
Condition Report: Horizontal curved crease 1.25 in. to upper right quadrant, else very fine.

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Rare Frank Matsura Carolinian Jubilee Singers Real Photo Postcard, ca 1910

"Carolinian Jubilee Singers." Frank Sakae Matsura (???, 1873-1913): [Washington State], n.d., ca December 1912. Titled and signed "F.S.M." in negative. Image depicts the troupe, consisting of seven African Americans singers dressed in heavy winter coats with suitcases at their feet posing beside a stagecoach.

The Original Carolinian Jubilee Singers, noted as one of the oldest jubilee companies in existence by the Indianapolis Recorder in a March 11, 1911 article, traveled all over the country to perform. The singers staged concerts in Grangeville, Idaho on December 5, 1912, and in Roseburg, Oregon on January 1, 1913, which means they passed through Washington state at some point during December 1912. Though there is no mention of them in Washington newspapers during this time, it explains how they were photographed by Frank Matsura, a well known Japanese-American photographer who worked exclusively in Washington State from 1901-1913. Image does not appear in the extensive Frank S. Matsura Image Gallery at Washington State University.
Condition Report: Horizontal curved crease 1.25 in. to upper right quadrant, else very fine.

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