Musical accompaniment: What a Difference a Day Made by Dinah Washington
As promised, here is the second part of the photo album! Click here to see Part 1. In these pictures, the mystery owner of the album appears to be finished with school and preoccupied with important questions of romance!
“Son of the Sheik Kelly”
Girls referred to eligible guys as “sheiks.” Anything Arabic was wildly popular in the 1920s, thanks largely to Rudolph Valentino, who was box office dynamite as The Sheik and The Son of the Sheik. (Women were called “shebas.”)
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“All Alone Wondering Where You Are”
I believe this must be the album owner!
Hood Museum at Dartmouth University
“It is a pleasant thing to sit out after supper and…”
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“Smiling Through”
Hood Museum at Dartmouth University
Baxter “Dream Papa”
Sheik Kelly might have competition.
Hood Museum at Dartmouth University
“Land of Kiss Me Please, Louise and Clarence”
Hood Museum at Dartmouth University
I hope these photos make your day!
old spirituals 