Sisieretta Jones by Maya https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones Browse through the photographs, paying attention to details, such as Sissieretta's style, as well as the descriptions of her that are included. en-us 2015-06-14 17:39:56 UTC 2025-10-06 06:07:00 UTC hello@padlet.com Jones' Show is advertised as "The Greatest Colored Show on Earth" maya_chavezakin https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63094705 2015-06-14 17:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63094705 Jones billed as "The Greatest Singer of her Race" maya_chavezakin https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63094718 Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (1869-1933). The decorations she wears in this 1899 poster testify to her professional triumphs. In 1892, she performed at the White House for President Benjamin Harrison and in London before the Prince of Wales. 

SOURCE: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri108.html

]]> 2015-06-14 17:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63094718 Jones in her Medals maya_chavezakin https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63094851 A remarkable soprano voice and a commanding presence won personal success for Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (1869-1933). 

]]> 2015-06-14 17:47:45 UTC https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63094851 Sissieretta Jones maya_chavezakin https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63094880 Known in her time as Black Patti

]]> 2015-06-14 17:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63094880 "I can never remember the time when I did not sing,." - Sissieretta Jones. July 4, 1896 maya_chavezakin https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63095118 2015-06-14 18:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63095118 Congdon Street Baptist Church maya_chavezakin https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63095745 (Current photo) Where Sissieretta worshipped in Providence.

]]> 2015-06-14 18:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63095745 Jones is buried in Grace Church Cemetery on Broad Street in Providence, Rhode Island. maya_chavezakin https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63095845 2015-06-14 18:35:00 UTC https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63095845 Adelina Patti, Italian singer maya_chavezakin https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63096215 Sissieretta's nickname "Black Patti" was a reference to a famous Italian singer, Adelina Patti

]]> 2015-06-14 18:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63096215 Narraggansett Hotel, where Sissieretta met her husband maya_chavezakin https://padlet.com/maya_chavezakin/sissierettajones/wish/63096582 At age fifteen Sissieretta had things on her mind other than music. That year she met David Richard Jones , a handsome mulatto from Baltimore who was working as a hotel bellman at the fashionable, eight-story Narragansett Hotel on the southwest corner of Dorrance and Weybosset Streets in Providence. The two were married 4 September 1883 by Baptist clergyman John C. Stockbridge. Although marriage records said Sissieretta was eighteen and David was twenty-four, she was actually fifteen and he was about twenty-one. 22 The young couple lived with Henrietta. The following spring, on 8 April 1884, seven months after their wedding, David and Sissieretta's daughter, Mabel, was born. Lee, Maureen D.. Sissieretta Jones: "The Greatest Singer of Her Race," 1868-1933 (Kindle Locations 291-297). University of South Carolina Press. Kindle Edition.

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