Image of an advertisement for Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels featuring bust-length portraits of William Emerson and R.M. Hooley in oval foliage frames; an African-American man is pictured below at center holding a scroll with advertisement text; small vignettes of a steamboat on the water at bottom left and a log cabin with an African-American woman with a basket balanced on her head standing outside at bottom right. Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; American Oleograph Co. was located in Milwaukee until 1878 when Louis Kurtz moved to Chicago. Kurtz began printing under his own name in 1879 and then founded Kurtz & Allison in 1880. "American Oleograph Co. Chicago."--text, bottom center margin. "50 in number under the management of R.M. Hooley of Hooley's Theatre. Chicago."--text, bottom center of image.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 57.47 x 70.96 cm (22 5/8 x 27 15/16 in.)
Advertising--Performing arts African Americans--Pictorial works Men--Pictorial works Minstrel shows 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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