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Title: [Acrobats and jockeys]
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1878
1879
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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 thirteen acrobats in blackface performing in a fenced outdoor ring with a row of twelve jockeys, each holding a riding crop, standing in formation behind them; with trees, a gazebo with a white flag emblazoned with a red horseshoe on the roof, and rolling hills in the background.
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).
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 58.42 x 81.92 cm (23 x 32 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000493
387686
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2293
Subject: Acrobats--Pictorial works
African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Jockeys--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
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 ; priJLC_ENT_000509

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