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Baltimore: N.p., 1998. Vintage one color flyer for actress Mink Stole's website, www.minkstole.com, featuring an image of Stole as Taffy Davenport from John Waters' 1974 cult classic "Female Trouble," with the proclamations "Visit My Website," "Get Good Gossip!," "Buy Cool Stuff!," and "See me in 3-D!," circa 1998. Stole, born Nancy Paine Stoll, has appeared in nearly 50… Read more about this item

Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Queer Film and Video Festival, 1998. Vintage program for "Baltimore's Queer Film and Video Festival," June 4-11, 1998. Screening over 30 feature length and short films, Baltimore's 1998 Queer Film and Video Festival, held to benefit Baltimore's LGBTQ community, took place over eight days at The Charles Theater, The Orpheum Theater, and at The Maryland… Read more about this item

Phoenix, AZ: Calderon Ballroom, 1982. Vintage flyer for a performance by Bad Brains, with supporting acts, Driftwood, Soylent Green, and Junior Achievement, presented by Mersey Productons, at the Calderon Ballroom in Phoenix, Arizona, October 24, 1982. A forerunner of hardcore punk, and adept at reggae, heavy metal, funk, hip hop and soul, Washington DC's acclaimed Bad Brains have… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Alcazar Theatre, 1979. Vintage poster for the 1979 San Francisco production of the 1978 off-off-Broadway play. "The Neon Woman" premiered at Hurrah, a West Side discotheque, on April 16, 1978, and ran for 88 performances, closing on July 15, 1978, and was named Best Play of 1978 by Soho News. It was revived on the West Coast… Read more about this item

Manchester, VA: Manchester High School, 1904. Vintage program for Manchester (colored) High School's commencement ceremony, held on June 14, 1904, at the First Baptist Church. One of the earliest schools for Black students in southern Virginia, Manchester High School was founded in 1888, with noted African American educator James H. Blackwell at its helm. The city of… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Morgan State University, 1953. Vintage program for a Morgan State vs. West Virginia football game, held at the Hughes Stadium in Baltimore on October 24, 1953. Program includes player and reserve lineups, photographs of each team and the respective coaches, and notes on the upcoming homecoming festivities. Near Fine in pictorial side-stapled wrappers.

Baltimore: Maryland State Arts Council / National Endowment for the Arts, 1987. Vintage one-color Julius Hemphill and Baltimore Jazz Workshop Big Band poster for a performance at the Baltimore Museum of Art, March 21, 1987. One of free jazz's most visionary composers, Julius Arthur Hemphill was a jazz composer and saxophonist best known as the founder of the… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Maryland Center for Creative Music, 1987. Vintage four-color Webster Young poster for a "Visiting Jazz Artists '87" performance at Maryland Art Place (MAP), January 8, 1987, for the Baltimore Jazz Workshop and hosted by the Maryland Center for Creative Music. Jazz trumpeter and cornetist Webster Young is best remembered for his smooth, lyrical playing, and performed with… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Ray Pino Presents / Famous Ballroom, 1971. Vintage flyer for a performance by the Herbie Hancock Septet, presented by Ray Pino, for a sickle cell anemia benefit at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore on December 26, 1971. Ray Pino was a long time jazz promoter in New York and Baltimore, and was the director of the 1967-1968… Read more about this item

Baltimore: N.p., 1967. Collection of five vintage black and white photographs of African American schoolchildren in Baltimore, including three matte-finish and two glossy, dated variously between 1945 and 1967. One photograph mounted on stiff cardboard, with faint manuscript pencil annotations to the top left corner, noting the names of students in the shot. Included in the collection… Read more about this item

Baltimore: N.p., 1970. Two original black and white photographs of Baltimore gospel performer Reverend S.A. Henry, one showing a promotional image of Henry posed alone, with a mailing address to the bottom margin, the other showing Henry standing with a group of women and men at the front of a large auditorium. One photograph with the stamp of photographer… Read more about this item

Baltimore: N.p., 1951. Archive of six vintage black and white photographs of students at Druid Junior High School 137 in Baltimore, including five showing students gathered in the music classroom, and one showing what appears to be a Christmas nativity recital. Four photographs dated variously between 1949 and 1951 in manuscript ink annotation to the bottom margin, and two… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Vintage matte-finish color photograph of gospel musician and pastor Reverend S.A. Henry receiving an award from Baltimore singing group The Greene Sisters. A singular moment in east coast gospel and R&B history of the 1970s. Reverend S.A. Henry was affiliated with long-standing gospel group The Baltimore Echoes, releasing a single, "Touch Jesus / Nobody Knows,"… Read more about this item

Baltimore: N.p., 1934. Vintage black and white photograph of the 1934 graduating class of George Washington Carver Vocational-Technical High School in Baltimore, MD. With a credit for photographer Paul Henderson at the bottom center of the photograph. The school was the first African American vocational-technical public high school in the state of Maryland, established in 1925. … Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1950. Collection of six vintage black and white photographs of church gatherings in Baltimore, including images of choirs, children's recital performances, luncheons, formal dinners, and Sunday school classes. One photograph with the blind stamp of photographer George W. Evans Jr. to the bottom right corner, one photograph with the blind stamp of photographer Paul Henderson, and one… Read more about this item

Baltimore: N.p., 1940. Vintage black and white photograph of a group of Sunday school students and teachers posing in front of Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church at 1210 West Lanvale Street in Baltimore. Blind stamp of photographer Paul Henderson to the bottom right corner. Circa 1940s. Built by free Black Baltimorean Truman Pratt and his congregation over the course… Read more about this item

Baltimore: N.p., 1925. Vintage program for a Baltimore City College vs. Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (or what Baltimoreans would call a "City vs. Poly") football game, held at the Baltimore Stadium in 1925. Included with the program is a ticket for the 1943 City vs. Poly game, as well as a small illustrated postcard showing the Polytechnic Institute in north… Read more about this item

Baltimore and Oakland: Baltimore Museum of Art / University of California Press, 2018. First Edition. First Edition. INSCRIBED by John Waters on the title page to noted curator, Brenda Richardson, to whom Waters dedicated the catalog, "To Brenda - / My life time / art mentor / love / John Waters." From Richardson's collection. Published in conjunction with a… Read more about this item

Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934. First Edition. First Edition. From the collection of noted Baltimore Museum of Art curator Brenda Richardson, with a typescript gift inscription card to Richardson laid in, "BRENDA, / I THOUGHT YOU SHOULD HAVE A PRISTINE COPY OF THIS. / HAPPY 20TH! / WENDY T." One of the most distinguished art curators and historians of… Read more about this item

N.p.: N.p., 1970. Vintage flyer for a concert held at the James Brown Motor Inn in Baltimore, 1970. Billed as "A World Series Special Show," the concert would have been held on either Saturday, October 10, in conjunction with Game One of the 1970 World Series (which itself took place at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati), or Saturday, October 17,… Read more about this item