Image / Thatcher Primrose & West's "always to the front..." consolidated mammoth minstrels

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Title: Thatcher Primrose & West's "always to the front..." consolidated mammoth minstrels
Creator: Strobridge Lithographing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1881
1882
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 three men performing in blackface on high-wheeled penny-farthing bicycles; several other cyclists follow behind on a tree-lined trail.
Date supplied by cataloger based on performer and printer history; Strobridge Lithographing Company began printing under that name in approximately 1881, and Primrose & West did away with blackface material entirely by 1882. "Strobridge Lith. Co. Cin'ti & N.Y."--text, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 74.3 x 101.28 cm (29 1/4 x 39 7/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_004751
503194
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5463
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Performing arts
Bicycles--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Men--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
Performances--Pictorial works
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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