Edmund Thornton Jenkins collection

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Edmund Thornton Jenkins collection

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The collection consists of personal and professional papers reflecting Jenkins' career as a musician and composer, and encompasses four series: Personal and Professional Papers, Family Papers, Jenkins Orphanage Documents, and Research Material. The personal and professional papers contain letters from Jenkins to his father and stepmother, Eloise C. Harleston Jenkins, letters to Jenkins from friends and professional associates, including a letter from composer Will Marion Cook; family papers consisting of letters written to the family following Jenkins' death in 1926 and documents related to his death and the disposition of his estate; Jenkins Orphanage Documents including letters, programs and playbills, and financial papers; research material gathered by Jeffrey P. Green, the donor and author of EDMUND THORNTON JENKINS: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN AMERICAN BLACK COMPOSER, 1894-1926 (1982). The research material includes Green's correspondence and interviews with people who knew Jenkins, a listing from SACEM of the songs composed by Jenkins, photocopies of articles regarding Jenkins, the Orphanage, Jenkins family members and prominent musicians who had some sort of affiliation with the Jenkins Orphanage and the Band.

.5 lin. ft.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Archives Section

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SNAC Resource ID: 6316904

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Green, Jeffrey P.

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Edmund Thornton Jenkins, born in Charleston, South Carolina, was a composer and musician. He began his musical career during his childhood with the Jenkins Orphanage Band, which was organized and led by his father, the Reverend Daniel Jenkins to raise money for the orphanage he had established in Charleston in 1871. The band was composed of boys in the orphanage. They performed jazz and ragtime in numerous cities in the United States and England, and were the largest sin...

Jenkins' Orphanage Band

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Cook, Will Marion

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Jenkins, Edmund Thornton, 1894-1926

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Jenkins was a composer and musician. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1894. He studied at the Avery Institute and Morehouse College, and he attended the Royal Academy of Music from 1914 to 1921. He played in jazz bands and dance orchestras. He began his own publishing company in Paris. He died there in 1926. From the description of Papers, 1916-1940, (bulk 1916-1926). (Columbia College Chicago). WorldCat record id: 50918522 ...

Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.)

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Jenkins, Daniel J., d.1937.

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