Dodge City Cowboy Band and Jack Sinclair Collection, 1866-1929, undated, bulk 1891-1916

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Dodge City Cowboy Band papers, circa 1880-1916, undated

Dates:: circa 1880-1916, undated
Scope and content:: The collection of Dodge City Cowboy Band promotional materials and memorabilia date from 1880 to 1916. Many items refer to the band's final opera "The Cowboy's Dream." Items in this series include a business card for the Original Dodge City Cow-Boy Band, display labels to accompany gifts to Jack Sinclair from the citizens of Colorado, newspaper clippings about the band and individual band members, notes, paste-up sheets, framed and unframed photographs of Dodge City Cowboy Band members and processions, a postcard, posters, programs for "The Cowboy's Dream," and stationery for the Dodge City Cowboy Band, some of which features Edith Frances Sinclair as Prairie Flower. This series also includes a scrapbook containing clippings, letterhead, printed matter, and drawings relating to Jack Sinclair, the Dodge City Cowboy Band, and Sinclair's opera, "The Cowboy's Dream." Some of the clippings in the scrapbook document Sinclair's career as a police officer in Pueblo, Colorado.

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Location of this collection:: Autry Museum of the American West

4700 Western Heritage Way

Los Angeles, CA 90027, US