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Title: Lester & Allen's big minstrels : "Two new sports in town."
Creator: Central Lith. & Eng. Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1880
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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 two African American men and two bull dogs walking down a street while African American spectators including women, children, and a police officer look on from the sidewalk and building windows, the men are wearing costumes decorated with playing cards and horseshoes and have top hats, gloves, canes, large diamond tie pins, and rose boutonnieres, and one man holds a $50 dollar bill in his hand; with a date sheet for a November 26, [1885], show at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted on poster.
Probable date based on month and day in date sheet and general history of company; Lester and Allen's Minstrels performed from around 1884 until 1887. "Central / Lith & Eng. Co. / Chicago."--text, bottom left of image. "Fulton / Opera House / Lancaster. / One Night Only, Thanksgiving, / Thursday Nov. 26 / The Greatest Dialect Show on Earth!"--text, date sheet.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_001872
443367
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2296
Subject: African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Caricatures and cartoons
Minstrel shows
Lester & Allen's Minstrels
Fulton Opera House
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Place: Lancaster (Pa.)
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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