Hope Had Famous Negro Band in 1912, Black giants, a local Negro band [graphic]. 1912.

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Hope Had Famous Negro Band in 1912, Black giants, a local Negro band [graphic]. 1912.

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Negative taken of Black Giants, an African American Band from Hope, Hempstead County, Arkansas in 1912. The musicians in the image are Row 1(left to right) Red Dees, Joe Jackson, Ernest Smith and Bis Royal. Top row: John [W]ard, Arthur Steel, Alex Gibson, Joe Button, Arthur Levins and Elliot Curry.

1 copy negative : b&w ; 13 x 10 cm. (5 x 4 in.)

Arkansas History Commission

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Arkansas History Commission

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Black Giants (Musical group)

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Jackson, Joe, musician.

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Dees, Red.

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Curry, Elliot.

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Royal, Bis.

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Button, Joe W.

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Ward, Joe (Conductor)

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Joe Ward was born in England and trained as a gardener. He immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s, came north to Whitehorse in 1909, built a rowboat, paddled to Dawson and found work in a greenhouse. A year later he travled down the Yukon River to Fort Yukon, worked at mines on Birch Creek and at Circle City, and travled up the Porcupine River to a site above Shuman House, where he built a cabin and lived for the next 40 years, operating an extensive trapline. From the de...

Levins, Arthur.

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Hubbell, Ken

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Gibson, Alex, musician.

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Arkansas History Commission

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The Arkansas History Commission was created by the General Assembly in 1905. Inspired and guided during its early years by John Hugh Reynolds, the commission is the official archives of the state, responsible for collecting and preserving the source materials of the history of Arkansas. From the description of Arkansas History Commission records, 1905-1984 [microform]. (Arkansas History Commission). WorldCat record id: 244818119 ...

Steel, Arthur, musician.

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Smith, Ernest, musician.

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