Frank Dumont minstrelsy scrapbook, 1850-1902.

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Frank Dumont minstrelsy scrapbook, 1850-1902.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61749318

Frank Dumont's scrapbook about the history of minstrelsy, created in 1902, contains more than fifty years of documentation about minstrelsy and its origins, including broadsides, programs, sheet music, photographs, articles, a few letters, and Dumont's handwritten notes.

1 vol.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 7807728

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