Bledsoe, Jules - Signed Photograph 1931 Records Signed Program insert from a performance

Program insert from a performance of Verdi's Otello at the Vienna Staatsoper on October 23rd

slight damage on the borders

Also signed by photographer in pencil on the front

scattered silvering over the photograph

Autograph letter in German (sold untranslated) signed by him

Bledsoe, Jules - Signed Photograph 1931 Records Signed Program insert from a performanceAmerican baritone and composer (1897 1943), the first African American artist to succeed in Broadway, getting regularly hired, sang in the original production of Jules Kern's Showboat in 1927. Signed photograph, shown as himself, inscribed and dated in 1931. Stamped on verso by photographer Charles A. Braun, Chicago. Size is 8 x 10 inches, several small creases on edges, otherwise in very good condition.