Gospel music singer and promoter Major Hollis in his home

African Americans

Gospel (Black)

Gospel musicians

Singers

Two proof sheets with 72 black and white images (plus negatives). Hollis was born in Pleham, Georgia in 1908. After a brief period singing blues in Tennessee, he began organing and promoting gospel quartets in Florida in the 1920s. His home became the 'Hollis Hotel', a palce where gospel groups often stayed. In the emantime, he also worked as a cook. He remained active in gospel msuic throughout is life. He won the 1994 Florida Folk Heritage Award posthumously.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1603

1994

Florida Folklife Program

Still Image

S1603

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2

Photographic prints

Florida Folk Heritage Award

Florida Folklife Program

Hollis, Major James, 1908-1996

African American

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