Box 1
Container
Contains 23 Results:
Correspondence to Ginger Meehan, May 6, 1926-November 19, 1930
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents note
Letters and telegrams to Ginger Meehan from fans, friends and acquaintances including entertainers Bing Crosby and Johnny Mercer (telegram July 17, 1930), and Long Island, New York photographer John W. Sheeres (photos discussed are filed in the Photograph series). Topics include a benefit performance, a photo session, and her theater work.
Dates:
May 6, 1926-November 19, 1930
Correspondence to Ginger Meehan from her suitors, circa 1926-1930
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
Series II contains letters, telegrams, and greeting cards from, to, and between Johnny and Ginger Mercer and their friends and relatives. Major topics include Ginger Mercer's stage career and beaux in the 1920s, when she performed under the stage name "Ginger Meehan"; the courtship of Johnny Mercer and Ginger Meehan; Johnny Mercer's career; Mercer's repayment, in 1955, of a large debt remaining from the failure of his father's business in 1927; and Mercer's final illness and death...
Dates:
circa 1926-1930
Correspondence to Ginger Meehan from Johnny Mercer, September 22, 1930-December 8, 1930
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents note
Letters and telegrams to Ginger Meehan from Mercer while both were traveling with shows. Mercer writes of hearing Louis Armstrong at the Cotton Club, a continually extended show tour of Los Angeles and San Francisco, and of his love for and desire to see her.
Dates:
September 22, 1930-December 8, 1930