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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 blackface performers riding bicycles on a crowded circular track outdoors with minstrel show proprietors George Primrose and William West riding bicycles in the center foreground and holding up their hats; three chickens and a dog scurry out of the way of the cyclists.
"6601"--text, top right margin. "Copyright 1895 By / The / Strobridge / Lith - Co. / Cin'ti - N.Y."--text, lower right.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 77.47 x 103.51 cm (30 1/2 x 40 3/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000492
387666
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2226
Language: English
Subject: Primrose & West’s Minstrels
Primrose, George--Portraits
West, William H., 1853-1902--Portraits
African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Bicycles--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
Theatrical producers and directors--Portraits
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

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