Broome sold them through a regional mail order catalog that operated throughout eastern Massachusetts but also placed national ads in The Crisis.

After an unsuccessful career in theater he soon married and moved his family to Medford, Massachusetts, where he worked in a verity of roles as a porter, laborer, and waiter.

[1] After attending Howard University in 1896, Broome started printing sheet music, including Will Marion Cook's earliest compositions.

It helped him build up enough capital to establish the Broome Exhibition Company to produce African American documentary films.

[8][9][10] Broome saw the demand in the African American community for commercial recordings of serious black performers outside stereotypical Vaudeville.

He established his own mail order catalog company in September 1919 to sell his records and remaining sheet music from his home.

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