A single-paged letter to Count Basie from Richard Wright with a contract concerning royalties and shared monies for the collaboration on the song "King Joe," about the boxer Joe Louis. The document is typed on white paper with a William Morris Agency…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.3.20.1
A contract for Haverly's "Genuine Colored" Mastodon Minstrels to perform at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. The contract is a long folio leaf, with pre-printed fields that have been filled out by hand. An edit, by hand in ink, adds: "Genuine Colored"…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.64
A typewritten ink on Buffalo Booking Agency letterhead, contract "No. 3016" for a performance of "Four hours with usual intermission." Signature of B.B. King in lower left corner. It is unsigned by the second party.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.172.3
Signed contract between Selznick International Pictures, Inc for the motion picture "Gone with the Wind" with Hattie McDaniel. Contract includes seventeen (17) pages of onionskin paper with ink and mimeographed text printed throughout. The last page…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.270.1.1
A handwritten contract between Freedman Dred and Mary Josephine Rivers. The document stipulates that Dred and his child Alfred are to work for ten dollars per month for Rivers and her family in Clarke County, Alabama, with an additional five dollars per…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.28.36
This is a Poro contract from the office of Annie Pope-Turnbo. On the first page is an undated and unsigned Contract for the Poro System of Hair Treatment and Instruction. Included in the contract are the cost of the course, the proper use of the course…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.170.5
A contract signed by Otis Redding. The contract has black print on legal paper with signatures on the bottom right of the front. The contract establishes the payment distribution regarding the song "Mr. Pitiful" between writers Otis Redding and Steve…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.50.1
Unbound contracts and indentures, August 1865–June 1866, are arranged chronologically. Miscellaneous records relating to complaints are at the end of the series.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1913, File 3.34.9
The single volume of contracts and monthly statements of property, 1866–68 (170), is arranged by type of record. The contracts are arranged by year (1866 and 1867) and thereunder numerically. There is a name index to the contracts. The monthly statements…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog NMAAHC.FB.M1901, File 3.28.1
