Poster for The Nat Towles Orchestra at Trianon Ballroom, Croweburg, Kansas

Omaha, Nebraska: The Metropolitan Press, 1930. 14 x 21 ½ inch poster. Worn with marginal damage; very good plus.. Nat Towles (1905–1963) was a jazz musician and bandleader from New Orleans. His band, first called Nat Towles’ Creole Harmony Kings, was a renowned territory band in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska. They would later have residences in Omaha and Chicago and tour New York City. Offered here is a poster for the Nat Towles Orchestra at the Trianon Ballroom in Croweburg, Kansas, likely from the 1930s given the location and band name. Croweburg was a coal mining town—and a sundown town until 1912.[1]

[1] “A.P.Roundtree Esq.”, The Kansas Baptist Herald, May 20, 1912, 1.