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Title: [Musicians playing stringed instruments]
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1878
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1885
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 sixteen blackface minstrel musicians wearing top hats affixed with spoons and playing stringed musical instruments, including guitars, lutes, banjos, and cellos, on a platform stage.
Margins and title trimmed from local copy; probable date range and printer supplied by cataloger based on similar images in collection (priJLC 000468 ; priJLC 000488); title supplied by cataloger. "[Strobridge] Lithograph Co. Cincinnati, O."--text, bottom right margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 58.1 x 94.93 cm (22 7/8 x 37 3/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000489
387592
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2228
Language: English
Subject: African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Bands (Music)--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
Musical instruments--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (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_000468 ; priJLC_ENT_000488

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