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Title: Primrose & West's big minstrels : we are the "scorchers" of minstrelsy
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1895
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 an advertisement for Primrose & West's minstrel show featuring dozens of performers in blackface riding bicycles along paths behind Primrose and West themselves; a dog and some chickens flee in the foreground; man holding banner at center that reads, "Always Up To Date."
"Copyright 1895 by The Strobridge Lith. Co. Cin'ti N.Y."--text, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 68.74 x 92.71 cm (27 1/16 x 36 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_004749
503192
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5474
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Performing arts
Bicycles--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Men--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
Performances--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Performing Arts: Minstrel
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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