Collection Items
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CollectionMinstrel poster collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available 177 prints (posters) : some b&w, most color ; various sizes. | Posters mainly depict minstrels and minstrel companies, performing and in portrait. Minstrels, usually, though not exclusively, performed programs of African-American music, broad comedy and jokes, and African-American impersonations, frequently in blackface. Featured minstrels include Lew Dockstader, Al G. Field, Carroll Johnson, Richard J. José, Ezra Kendall, Chas. H. Larkin, Tom Lewis, George...
- Contributor: Courier Co. Lith. Dpt - Strobridge & Co. Lith - Courier Litho. Co - U.S. Printing Co - Otis Lithograph Co
- Date: 1847
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CollectionTheatrical poster collection (Library of Congress) Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available 1,784 prints (posters) : some b&w, most color; various sizes. | Collection includes posters advertising individual plays and operettas, burlesque, vaudeville, and specialty acts, dance companies, extravaganzas produced by the Kiralfy Brothers, portraits of entertainers, and stock posters. Featured performers include Julia Arthur, De Wolfe Hopper, Joseph Hart Vaudeville Co., Thomas W. Keene, Andrew Mack, Robert B. Mantell, Mathews & Bulger, Lewis Morrison, Phil...
- Contributor: Strobridge & Co. Lith - National Prtg. & Engr. Co - Otis Lithograph Co - A.S. Seer Print - U.S. Printing Co - Courier Co. Lith. Dpt - H.C. Miner Litho. Co - Donaldson Lith. Co - Metropolitan Litho. Studio - U.S. Lithograph Co - Courier Litho. Co
- Date: 1850