Alton Abraham collection of Sun Ra, 1822-2008 (inclusive).

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Alton Abraham collection of Sun Ra, 1822-2008 (inclusive).

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Alton Abraham (1927-1999), entrepreneur and hospital technician, was a longtime friend and business associate of Sun Ra (1914-1993), the influential jazz composer and musician. Alton Abraham collected manuscripts, business records, printed ephemera, artifacts, photographs, audio and video recordings, and other documents of his work with Sun Ra. The collection contains textual, graphic, and audio-visual records of the work of Sun Ra and his collaborators, as well as professional and personal papers of Alton Abraham. The collection spans 1822-2008, with material concentrated in the late 1950s-1980s.

156 linear ft. (146 boxes, 1 oversize folder)

University of Chicago Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7780808

University of Chicago Library

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Abraham, Alton, 1927-1999.

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Sun Ra was born Herman Poole Blount on May 22, 1914 in Birmingham Alabama. Alton Abraham was born in Chicago on May 5, 1927. Following Sun Ra's death in Birmingham 1993, Abraham became involved with the reissue and rerelease of out-of-print Sun Ra recordings. In addition to his activities with Sun Ra, Abraham was employed as an x-ray technician, and independently pursued his interests in spirituality, history, science, and technology. Alton Abraham died June 6, 1999 in Chicago. From ...

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