American minstrel show collection, 1829-1947.

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American minstrel show collection, 1829-1947.

American minstrel show collection, 1829-1947.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/631659246

Images are of individual minstrel performers and troupes from primarily American minstrel shows ca 1830s to 1920s. Images are a variety of formats including lithographs, photographs, a few etchings and cabinet photographs, printed clippings, photomechanical prints, 1 tintype, and others. Some prints are hand-colored and images depict performers both in character (in "blackface"), as well as in street clothes. For the most part, the sheet music in this series is not complete, but includes only covers, collected here for the images depicted. Also includes other materials such as photomechanical copies of playbills and broadsides, clippings with images and biographical text, some complete sheet music, programs, manuscripts, and drawings. The playbill series includes "true" playbills (long sheets, printed on only one side) and also printed advertisements, programs (printed on both sides), and programs with sheet music. Also included are a few photomechanical reproductions of playbills. Some important groups represented in this collection are: Bryant's Minstrels, Buckley's New Orleans Serenaders, Callender's Georgia Minstrels, Campbell's Minstrels, Christy Minstrels, Ethiopian Serenaders, Haverly's Minstrels, Ordway's Æolian Vocalists, Thomas Dartmouth Rice, Virginia Minstrels, Virginia Serenaders, White's Minstrels, Wood's Minstrels, many female minstrel groups, as well as many others.

17 boxes (6 linear ft.)

Houghton Library