BIGGEST RHYTHM & BLUES SHOW OF ’54, THE (1954) Concert poster

Baltimore, [MD]: Globe Poster, 1954. Vintage original 24 x 22″ (61 x 56 cm) concert poster. There are a few light, primarily marginal dampstains, very good+.

A genuinely scarce poster for a concert lineup which featured, among others: Roy Hamilton, the Drifters, the great jazz trumpeter Erskine Hawkins and His Orchestra and Big Maybelle.

This poster, no kidding, is a rarity. HA has auctioned six copies of a 1955 poster with a somewhat different lineup, but has never had this one. There is no record of it having been auctioned either in Worthpoint or Rarebookhub. And there are zero copies listed in WorldCat.