​This is a rare and historically significant C. December 1929 photograph of Broadway producer Lew Leslie (1888-1963) and Bandleader Lockwood Lewis (1890-1953). Lewis is holding a Plantation Club 'Harlem's Hot Spot' Program explicitly listing the 142nd and Lenox Ave Address ---The Douglass Building/Cotton Club building. In

addition to the Plantation Club program, he appears to be holding a professional press kit that includes a stacked set of publicity "glossies" (8x10 photos of the performers) and a theatrical cast list detailing the evening's order of acts.  

  

Note: While the flagship Plantation Club was on 126th St, owners Connie and George Immerman also opened the "Plantation Room" on the ground floor of the Cotton Club’s own building to intercept their customers.  Lockwood Lewis (leading The Missourians) was poached from the Savoy Ballroom.  Lew Leslie was famously poached from the Cotton Club, a move that triggered a violent underworld retaliation.​ Because of this specific "Invasion" at 142nd St, the Cotton Club mob (Owney Madden gang) raided and destroyed the Plantation’s flagship venue and cleared out Planation Room on January 16, 1930.  The "142nd Street" version of the program likely existed for only a few weeks before the mob forced the venue to shut down. Most photographs and promotional materials were destroyed by the raids to wipe out any evidence of the Immerman's presence on that block.

The 6.5" x 8.5" photo, originating from the personal collection of famed jazz trombonist and chronicler George Lorenzo Brashear (1894-1968) has significant creasing, fold lines, tears at top right corner and bottom center, and is cropped at bottom left corner.