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WPA Orchestra Program
From Calobe Jackson, Jr., February 15, 2006
Hi to all. Below is one of my new pictures (click the thumbnail
image for a larger version) of musicians who probably also played jazz in Harrisburg. Paul Cannon, violin, Jean Vennie, violin, James Sims, trumpet, James Jones, trombone, Winifred Montgomery, piano, William Rideout, bass, Naomi James, conductor, Robert
Washington, co-conductor, Ivan Williams, Supervisor of Education.
Calobe
[Editor's note: Click this thumbnail for the entire, larger version image. The photo caption states: Members of the orchestra of the music department of the WPA project for Negroes in Dauphin County who recently appeared in a program, 'Ye Old Singing Skule,' given at the Forster Street Branch of the Y.M.C.A. are shown here." The caption goes on to state the members, as listed by Calobe in his letter, above. The article is from the Harrisburg Evening News, May 25, 1936.]