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.)
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
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