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78 RECORDS

• A large collection of miscellaneous
  A large collection of miscellaneous 78 records. Including 'His masters voice', Parlophone and more.
• VICTOR FLOOR VICTROLAA mahogany Victor
  VICTOR FLOOR VICTROLAA mahogany Victor working victrola, VV100 SR#49852, this lot contains many 78 records by various artists, 21"x22"x47"
• THREE BOXES OF VINTAGE 78 RECORDS Standard
  THREE BOXES OF VINTAGE 78 RECORDS Standard popular music of the 1920s and '30s.
• TIMOTHY BURKE, MICHIGAN (B. 1959), SCULPTOR,
  TIMOTHY BURKE, MICHIGAN (B. 1959), SCULPTOR, 1996, OIL ON CANVAS, 10 1/4"H X 11 3/4"W (SIGHT), 11 3/4"H X 13 1/2"W (FRAME)Timothy Burke, Michigan, (b. 1959) Sculptor, 1996, oil on canvas Titled, signed, and dated verso. Biography from the Archives of askART: "Tim Burke confronts his inner demons with his found object art: Soul-searching in the dumpster," Exhibition review, The Detroit Industrial Gallery, by Lee DeVito, Detroit Metro Times, December 10, 2014 On Sept. 18, artist Tim Burke suffered a fire at his studio — apparently part of the wave of arsons that swept through Detroit's Heidelberg Street in the past year. Dubbed the Detroit Industrial Gallery, this is where Burke has worked for the past 14 years, and where he stores treasures accumulated from 25 years of picking through the city. "I had thousands of dollars' worth of stuff in the house," Burke says, among them blueprints from city buildings, a crucifix from St. Matthew's Church, terra cotta pieces from the demolished Hudson building, and pieces recovered from Gratiot Central Market, Cass Tech High School, and Riviera Theatre — "tons of stuff," he explains. "The idea is to repurpose it all," he says of his habit. "Whether or not I get to that ... well, I have two lifetimes of stuff!" For Burke, it's not just about uncovering treasures from the past. Burke says he faces his inner demons from the items he finds in the trash, which often have what he says are uncanny connections to his life. One such example came after Burke attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting (Burke says he's been sober for 29 years). "I had the blues," he says. "I had the wrong reasons for going to the meeting — there was this beautiful blond lady at the meeting. She ends up telling me she doesn't like me like that. So I leave the meeting, I'm all depressed, and I say a prayer — 'God, help me get on the right track.'" Burke stopped by a dumpster outside Royal Oak Flea Market and found a variety of curios, such as a velvet painting of a bull and a cow with the initials "D.B." (Burke is a Taurus; the person who got him involved with the flea market shared the initials D.B.). He also found some 78 records from the '40s with the name "J. Burke" (his uncle was Joe Burke, a "Cass Corridor alcoholic" who tended bar at the Old Miami). Burke then called up his estranged uncle and asked him to get sandwiches in Eastern Market. Two months later, Uncle Joe died. "It's about review, and where I am," Burke says. "It's about trying to learn to stop judging, and be here, be in the moment. It takes a lot to get present. To get present, I have to deal with all the resentment, all the hurts, and hurts I've done to others in the path and clean that shit up and try the best that I can to be in the now, right now." Creating art, Burke says, is a way of confronting these unresolved issues. Burke says he took to art as a kid, but "the drinks and drugs interrupted that," describing his youth as being "a street hoodlum." After a brief stint in the Army at the end of the '70s, he got back into making art. His father was an artist, a Wayne State-educated painter and sculptor, and Burke's therapist, Ted Church, was big on using art as therapy. Burke took things to the next level with a welding class in 1990. "I had all these ideas, all these images in my head that I wanted to weld up," he says. "I told the teacher I didn't want to be a welder per se — too much technical shit. He said, 'just pass the safety test, and then you have free rein of the lab.'" The first thing Burke made was a metal creature, which can now be viewed in the garden near Lafayette Coney Island. Burke says he didn't think much of what it could mean until he showed it to Church. "He said to me, 'Tim, I want you to stand in front of this thing and tell me what it's thinking and feeling.' I'm like, 'Jesus fucking Christ, just look at the art, man!'" Burke says. "I get in front of that iron creature and I write, 'Don't blink and don't breathe or I'll kill you.' Then I thought, 'That thing's not thinking that — it's you,'" Burke says. That's when he had a memory of a recurring nightmare he had at 10 for about three years, in which an iron man comes down the back steps of the house to kill his family. "I made up rules in the dream so that he wouldn't kill me," Burke says. "'Don't breathe and don't blink, he can't kill you.'" Upon the revelation, Burke says he kicked his sculpture over — then hugged it, sobbing for 10 minutes. That's when Burke realized the iron man was his alcoholic stepfather, a violent drunk who broke his mother's nose and once fired a shotgun through the front door. Burke says he watched The Wizard of Oz the night of the shotgun incident, which was the origin of the iron man creature from his dream. "The Tin Man — it's an archetypal image for macho men," he explains. "If the Tin Man cried, Dorothy would oil him up. Dorothy is in every man — it's the kind, nurturing female aspect that the macho man has denied." Burke shows us another image he's made, forged from metal — a giant bouquet of flowers made out of steel. "It's male and female, in that respect," he says. Lately, Burke has made furniture using parts from F-18 fighter jets and Patriot missiles (he has a friend who is in the business of building them), on display at the River's Edge Gallery in Wyandotte. He's also selling jewelry at the Detroit Institute of Arts' gift shop, made from copper from buildings like the burned-down Fisher mansion in Palmer Woods. Again, Burke says he has strange connections to many of these places. "These buildings that I've gotten into — I've been in meetings in these buildings," he says. "My mother and father worked in the Hudson's building." He pauses to reflect, adding, "It's pieces of a broken-down city that I've put back together in a different context to build a broken-up person." — mt oil on canvas Dimensions: 10 1/4"H x 11 3/4"W (sight), 11 3/4"H x 13 1/2"W (frame)
• COLLECTION OF LONG PLAYING AND 78 RECORDSCollection
  COLLECTION OF LONG PLAYING AND 78 RECORDSCollection of Long Playing and 78 Records,
• VINTAGE AMI ARCH TOP JUKEBOX, BENT PLEXIGLASSfront,
  VINTAGE AMI ARCH TOP JUKEBOX, BENT PLEXIGLASSfront, model 500. Original condition. Plays 78 records. Colorful lights, currently working but not perfectly. Not guaranteed to operate correctly. Comes with collection of records. 67" high, 33" wide, 24" deep. It plays and lights up but sound system does not work properly.
• Lot. Autograph Material. Guthrie, Woody.
  Lot. Autograph Material. Guthrie, Woody. Archive of Autograph Letters Signed, Autograph Manuscript & Typescript Short Stories, Signed Ephemera & other related material: Autograph Letters Signed, all to Charlotte Straus of Philadelphia, all but the last from U.S. military bases on which Guthrie was serving as a private: Scott Field, Ill., Oct. 29, 1945. 4to, 5 pp.; Scott Field, Ill., Nov 3, 1945. 4to, 8 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 5, 1945. 4to, 5 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 8, 1945. 4to, 4 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 8, 1945. 4to, 4 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 8, 1945. 4to, 10 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 10, 1945. 4to, 4 pp.; Las Vegas, Dec. 18, 1945. 4to, 18 pp. - bottom 1/2 of the last leaf of this letter is clipped away, removing its text & presumably Guthrie's signature; Las Vegas, Dec. 21, [19]45, 4to, 4 pp.; Brooklyn, Jan. 2, 1946, 4to, 1 p.; [Stroud]sburg, Pa., Oct. 8, 1946, folio, 8 pp. Autograph Manuscript Short Story Signed. "I Spin, You Spin." 4to, 6 pp., in ink, signed, "Woody Guthrie / Sept. 15, 1946, Delaware Water Gap." Some dampstaining - no text obscured. * Another copy of the preceding, 4to, 6 pp., in pencil, signed, "Woody Guthrie, Sept. 15, 1946." Typescript Short Story. "Study Butte." 4to, 27 pp. With autograph signed inscription [to Charlotte Straus] on gutter margin of p. 1, signed , "Woody, 10-3-1917." 1 vol. Guthrie, Woody. American Folksong - cover title. N.p., n.d. 4to, orig. flexible bds. Inscribed & signed to Charlotte Straus in ink. Pencil & watercolor letters on front & back endpapers, dated, "May 28, 1947," variously signed as "Woody" & "W.G." Record Album. "Documentary #1 Struggle." Three 78 records in orig. sleeve, featuring "Buffalo Skinners" & 4 more songs by Woody Guthrie (album includes 1 song by Sonny Terry). Inscribed to Charlotte [Straus] & signed by "Woody, Marjorie & Cathy" [Guthrie] on part sleeve of "Buffalo Skinners" record, Woody has added, apparently refering to the song, "This is me struggling." Disc Company of America. "Songs To Grow On, Nursery Days." New York, n.d. Printed sheet folded in 8 12mo pp. With songs by Woody Guthrie written for his children & Disc Company adverts. for other of their Children's records. On title, "Our latest album / Woody Guthrie," in Guthrie's hand. Charlotte Straus of Philadelphia wrote to Woody Guthrie in 1945 after reading his book Bound for Glory. Guthrie responded to her letter on Oct. 29, 1945, while in service as a private in the American armed forces. His letter warmly acknowledged Charlotte's apparently rich & sympathetic response to his work. A warm & intimate correspondence, recorded on Guthrie's side by the letters above, developed between Oct. 29, 1945 & Oct. 8, 1946. Guthrie's reverie-filled letters offer Straus intimate reflections, "I want to tell you that 90% of your whole letter set up some pretty sad aches and pains in me" (Nov. 3, 1945) & whimsy, "Here's eight pages of molasses to go all over your pancakes" (Dec. 8, 1945), reflections on their relationship & his response to the desert surrounding his Las Vegas service base, "The desert is so lonesome that she blows a cold air across her bosom. You have a way of making me want to [?] down and buy more smokes and to set here in the window and look down across the barracks and write what crosses my mind" (Dec. 10, 1945); "You made me recall my trips all back through myself" (Dec. 21, 1945); "I had some writing on my mind, writing that the health book speaks about caused by fights in your head you must get out caused by some general visions whirling there of dreams you see and know and ones you doubt" (Dec. 8, 1945). Guthrie also discusses his work, praises Charlotte's passion for & knowledge of folk music, describes his domestic life including his wife Marjorie's attitude & background, "her mother Eliza Greenblatt, is one of the finest of the Yiddish... poetesses of the beauty for beauty's sake generation (Dec. 18, 1945). The letter of Dec. 8, 1945 includes eight pages of Guthrie song lyrics, beginning, "Take this and climb a hill somewhere away / From your factory and from / your night and from your day / and lay your head down on your chosen spot / and say yourself what these words fail to say." The letter of Oct. 8, 1946 from Stroudsburg, Pa. closes with three pages of song lyrics & drawings of figures & hearts on its last page. Altogether a privileged and detailed entry into Woody Guthrie's intertwined personal & professional lives. ,000-12,000 Descriptions provided in both printed and on-line catalogue formats do not include condition reports. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging. Interested bidders are strongly encouraged to request a condition report on any lots upon which they intend to bid, prior to placing a bid. All transactions are governed by Freeman''s Conditions of Sale.