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Baldwin, Cornelia Augusta (Gilman), 1831-1909. Cornelia Augusta Gilman Baldwin Diaries, 1868-1872.

Title: Cornelia Augusta Gilman Baldwin Diaries, 1868-1872.

Detailed diaries kept by affluent Washington, D.C. mother. Entries chronicle her daily activities, often focusing on the education (secular, musical, and religious) of her two children Ralph ("R") and Lillian May ("M"); household management; and social activities. The author recorded the money her husband allotted for her household expenses as well as his frequent absences. Ms. Baldwin's strong religious enthusiasm is manifested in her church attendance and her quotations from the sermons of Reverend Phineas D. Gurley. She also wrote of performances she and her children attended, including those of "Blind Tom" (Thomas Bethune, also known as Thomas Wiggins) and Norwegian "Ole Bull" (Frederick Buckley). Other entries describe recreational activities including taffy pulls, skating parties, sleighing, school exhibitions, drawing, and music lessons. She recorded books she read as well as those read by her children, including Pilgrim's Progress, The Hills of Shatemuc, works by Dickens, Oliver Optics books, and various periodicals. She also provided details of her supervision of hired women (some of whom were African American). Other activities mentioned include sewing, shopping, food preparation, teas, and luncheons.

ArchivalResource: 4 v.

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Minstrel Show Collection TXRC00-A7., 1821-1959, (bulk 1860-1940)

Title: Minstrel Show Collection 1821-1959 (bulk 1860-1940)

The collection documents the form of entertainment known as the minstrel show and, to a much lesser extent, other entertainments that used blackface makeup. The bulk of the collection documents individual performers and minstrel show companies, including touring companies.

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Burns, Hi-Brown Bobby. Minstrel Show Collection, 1821-1959, (bulk 1860-1940).

Title: Minstrel Show Collection, 1821-1959, (bulk 1860-1940).

The Minstrel Show Collection documents the form of entertainment known as the minstrel show and, to a much lesser extent, other entertainments that used blackface makeup. The Companies and Performers series comprises the bulk of the collection and contains photographs, prints, letters, sheet music, clippings, programs, playbills, scrapbook leaves, and a small number of tintypes for over 700 minstrel show companies and performers. This series also includes photographs of motion picture actors and variety performers from the 1920s and 1930s who utilize blackface makeup in their routines, as well as female impersonators and banjoists. Series II contains playbills and programs, mostly for New York City theaters. The Scrapbooks series contains photographs and clippings mounted in two intact scrapbooks, one disbound scrapbook, and about 50 loose scrapbook leaves. The bulk of the Printed Music series comprises sheet music for ca. 500 songs, most of which were popularized by white minstrel show performers. The Songsters, Jokesters, and Miscellaneous Booklets series is divided into two subseries: A. Songsters, 1833-83, nd, and B. Jokesters and Miscellaneous Booklets, 1870-1908, nd. The Songsters subseries comprises about 240 booklets of lyrics of songs which were popularized by comedians and minstrel show performers. The Jokesters and Miscellaneous Booklets subseries contains several booklets with the texts of jokes used in minstrel shows as well as a dozen booklets on miscellaneous topics, such as books of sayings, the texts of speeches, and acting manuals. The Miscellaneous series contains letters, programs, clippings, and prints pertaining to the banjo, female minstrels, McDonough's Opera House in Middletown, Conn., and other topics.

ArchivalResource: Approximately 4000 items (3000photographs, 500 prints, 500 programs and playbills).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/145405927 View

American minstrel show collection, 1823-1947.

Title: American minstrel show collection, 1823-1947.

Images of performers, playbills, clippings, and other material concerning American minstrel shows.

ArchivalResource: 23 boxes (9 linear ft.)

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Terry, Ellen, Dame, 1847-1928. Autograph letter signed : Plaza Hotel, New York, to Frederick Buckley, [n.d.].

Title: Autograph letter signed : Plaza Hotel, New York, to Frederick Buckley, [n.d.].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) + 1 envelope.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270126202 View