Box 1

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Newspaper clipping: "Tulsans Place Third in SPEBSQSA Meet"; Ad club program from Thursday, April 27th [1944] for Mainstreeters, titled "Sweet Ad-o-Club My Ad-o-Club A Treat Is in Store for You!"

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Shows all four individuals (McCaslin, Hall, Palmer, Graves) in flat-brimmed, straw boater-type hats and suits. Negative included.

Scope and Contents Label is "The Mainstreeters c. 1947," but this must be incorrect, because this picture is identical to the one on the inside the Ad Club brochure whose date printed on the front is Thursday, April 27th. This specific date occurred in the year 1944, although on the front of the brochure "c. 1945" is handwritten near the bottom right. Therefore, this photograph must have been made, at the very latest, in 1944, contrary to what is written on the back of it. It is taken in the same place and...

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Identical to "Mainstreeters c. 1947," except without signatures at bottom. Instead, the names are typed in the white space below the photo.

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Front titled, "The Mainstreeters Tulsa Okla." Back of punched photo has pencilled handwriting: MAINSTREETERS CHICAGO ILL 1943. Both prints are signed by all four members along with their respective singing voices underneath.

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Printed on bottom front, "SIXTH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL QUARTET CONTEST SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF BARBER SHOP QUARTET SINGING IN AMERICA DETROIT, JUNE 15, 16, AND 17, 1944." Back handwritten in pencil: MAINSTREETERS DETROIT MICH. 1944.

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All five men standing in black suits and bow-ties, (L to R) McCaslin, Hall, unidentified A.L. Commander, Palmer, Graves. Back handwritten in pencil: NAT'L COMMANDER AMERICAN LEGION, AMERICAN LEGION STATE QUARTET, BARTLESVILLE OKLA 1944.

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Shows (L to R) McCaslin, Hall, Palmer, Graves. Back handwritten, "The Mainstreeters (singing for American Legion Convention)". All four posing for professional photograph, but not singing as title suggests. Negative included.

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Shows (L to R) McCaslin, Hall, Palmer and Graves in white suits with canes.

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All four Mainstreeters (Earl, McCaslin, McCollough, Graves) in dark suits, with Graves sitting in the middle of the others, in a chair to the right of a fireplace in a well-furnished home. Handwritten in pencil on back: The Mainstreeters - c. 1946. However, this is the exact same setting and personnel as in the photograph 'Fireplace, Oklahoma City,' which is of the four instead as the Flying "L" Quartet, dated 1950 instead of 1946.