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Title
The world famed Moore & Burgess Minstrels
Creator
Stafford & Co., printer
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
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 a caricature of an African American musician wearing a red-white-and-blue top hat sitting on the back of a chair while playing a banjo and singing with a sign hanging from the title that reads "Fun without vulgarity" and text on the sole of the musician's shoe "All the Year Round"; date sheet for shows at Albert Hall in Nottingham, England, in top margin.
Probable date approximated by cataloger based on month and day in item text and similar text in newspaper advertisements. "Stafford & Co. / Netherfield / Nottm / 2/33"--text, lower right. "Albert Hall, / Nottingham / For Six Nights and Two Matinees, / Commencing Monday, March 21st."--text, top margin. "General / Manager / Mr. Lawrence / Brough"--text, bottom left. "From St. James's Hall. London. W"--text, bottom right.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 76.2 x 25.72 cm (30 x 10 1/8 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_ENT_000504
387677
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2288
Language
English
Subject
African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Banjoists--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Caricatures and cartoons
Minstrel shows
Foreign
Moore & Burgess Minstrels
St. James's Hall
Albert Hall
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Theatrical posters--England. (gmgpc)
Place
Nottingham (England)
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_000495

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