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Title: King High Kickers
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
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 poster that depicts the King High Kickers performing in blackface in various acts including standing on a table, falling back in a chair and through a table, and sitting in a barrel being pasted to a building wall by a man on a ladder; the four members of the King High Kickers, Morton Emerson, Willis Clark, Thomas Daly, and William Daly, look at the poster with their backs to the viewer and head-and-shoulder portraits of each performer in formal dress on their backs; Emerson and Thomas Daly are dressed as female impersonators.
Probable date range based on general show history; the King High Kickers formed in 1877 and toured until 1881. "Morton / Willis / Thomas / William"--text, actors names listed above their respective portraits.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : uncolored ; overall 48.9 x 71.44 cm (19 1/4 x 28 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000498
387672
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2283
Language: English
Subject: Clark, Willis, -1899--Portraits
Daly, Bill (Entertainer)--Portraits
Daly, Tom, 1855-1892--Portraits
Emerson, Mort, 1853-1919--Portraits
Actors--Portraits
African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
King High Kickers
Lithographs--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Portrait prints. (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_001008

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