[Broadside]: Calender[sic] of Special Attractions for Soldiers at the Soldiers' Club... Dance:- For Enlisted Men. Ladies Admitted by Card... Reception:- To All White Men in Uniform... Ball Game... Wearn Field. Colored Soldiers vs Charlotte Red Sox. Reservations for white patrons. Proceeds used for Purchase of Musical Instruments for Colored Soldiers

Charlotte [North Carolina]: The Huneycutt Printing Co., [1918].

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Unbound. Broadside. Measuring 11¾" x 18". Tipped onto black board and framed. Unexamined out of the framed, small chip at top margin, cheap paper lightly toned but otherwise appears near fine. The Charlotte Red Sox were a Negro League team founded in 1918, that played other Black clubs until the 1960s.

A curious combination of racism (excluding black soldiers from the reception) and supposed benevolence ("Proceeds used for Purchase of Musical Instruments for Colored Soldiers"). It bears remarking that the presence of Black soldiers with musical instruments in Europe caused a revolution in popular music, particularly among the French who fully embraced the coming Jazz Age. *OCLC* locates no copies; we could find no records of auction or private sales. Presumably the ephemeral nature of the broadside along with the perishable paperstock inveighed against the survivability of other copies. Rare.

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Item #499564 [Broadside]: Calender[sic] of Special Attractions for Soldiers at the Soldiers' Club... Dance:- For Enlisted Men. Ladies Admitted by Card... Reception:- To All White Men in Uniform... Ball Game... Wearn Field. Colored Soldiers vs Charlotte Red Sox. Reservations for white patrons. Proceeds used for Purchase of Musical Instruments for Colored Soldiers