Many of the photographs are signed in ink (possibly secretarial) or in facsimile, with a few postcards and handwritten notes. Most have glue residue or backing paper on verso; some are still on the collector’s ink-annotated backing sheets.
Half are postcard size or smaller; about a third are about 5 x 7”; a dozen are about 8 x 10”. Besides Jazz, the musical genres of the singers range from blues to typical 1930s pop. Notably, all of the entertainers pictured were white.
Most of these singers and musicians made enough of a mark, some in movies or big band live performances, to warrant an Internet biography, or at least honorable mention in “golden age” radio histories: Peg LaCentra, Ted Fio Rito, Jane Froman, Cobina Wright, Frankie Masters, Irene Beasley, Johnny Marvin (“The Lonesome Singer of the Air”), Anne Leaf, Artells Dickson, Phil Regan, Theo Karle, Edith Murray (“Dramatist of the Blues”), Leah Ray (Hubbard), Wayne King (“The Waltz King”), Pickens Sisters, Martha Mears, Anthony Frome (“Poet Prince”), Marian and Jim Jordan, Ted Black, Shirley Howard, Frances Adair, Donald Novis, Billy White, Neal Sisters, Vera Ban, “Bill & Ginger”, Bill Hogan, Don Mario, Vee Sandhurst,”Tim & Irene”, Patti Chapin, The Merry Macs, Wendell Hall, Freddie Miller, Muriel Pollock, Lew White, “Martha & Hal”, Milton Charles, Tito Guizar, Oxol Radio Trio, Mildred Rose, Jimmie Brierly, Will Osborne, Mino Martini, Gypsy Mina, Ben Bernie, Mary Marlin, Do Re Mi trio, Nick Lucas, Little Jack Little, Landt Trio and White, Evan Evans, Sleepy Hall, Mildred Bailey (“CBS Blues Singer:), Ramona (“Paul Whiteman’s star”), Ethel Shutta, George Olsen, Billy Mills, Three X Sisters, Don Hall Trio, Pickens Sisters, Elizabeth Barthells.