FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED NEWSPAPER.


The Freeman, A National Illustrated Colored Newspaper, vol 5, no 37. Indianapolis, IN: September 16, 1893. 8 pp. Folio (540 x 365 mm). Pages toned with some chipping and loss at edges.Featuring a front page story on Sissieretta Jones (1868-1933), the immensely popular American soprano who would go on to be the highest-paid African American performer of her era. The paper highlights a performance given at an Indianapolis church, but she also performed at the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago that same year.