Bledsoe, Jules - Signed Photograph 1931 Records Signed Two signed full page portraits

Two signed full page portraits by Rudolf Kempe & Maurizio Pollini

Also signed by photographer in pencil on the front

scattered silvering over the photograph

Staatsoper Berlin

conductor and teacher (1881-1955)

Bledsoe, Jules - Signed Photograph 1931 Records Signed Two signed full page portraitsAmerican 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.