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Title: Messett’s musical entertainers
Creator: Quigley Litho. Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a caricature of an African American man holding a top hat and standing with a ripped umbrella in the rain looking at a rooster on a wooden fence.
Probable date supplied by cataloger based on information provided in the Inventory of the Henrique Vivian Messetti Papers, 1924-1949 held by the University of California, Davis: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4d5nc57g/ "Quigley Litho. Co. / Kansas City Mo. / No. 2821"--text, lower right corner of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 107 x 35.88 cm (42 1/8 x 14 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000487
387662
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2223
Language: English
Subject: African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Caricatures and cartoons
Minstrel shows
Rain and rainfall--Pictorial works
Messett's Musical Entertainers
Lithographs--Color--1925-1950. (gmgpc)
Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Minstrel
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Relation: priJLC_ENT_000223

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