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I.W. Baird’s famous minstrels : streets blockaded to see the matchless musical & military parade free to all

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Title: I.W. Baird’s famous minstrels : streets blockaded to see the matchless musical & military parade free to all
Creator: Armstrong & Co. (Boston, Mass.), printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1876
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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 a street parade led by a band leader and a row of boys in red Zouave military uniforms holding rifles with bayonets and followed by band members in long formal coats and top hats playing musical instruments and carrying a central banner containing a portrait of minstrel show proprietor I. W. Baird with his signature at lower right of banner.
Probable date range based on general show history; I. W. Baird's minstrel show performed from 1876 until 1889 (Rice, Monarchs of Minstrelsy, page 203). "Armstrong & Co. Lith. / Boston"--text, lower left of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 73.98 x 107.95 cm (29 1/8 x 42 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000484
387584
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2220
Language: English
Subject: Baird, I. W., -1908--Portraits
Boys--Pictorial works
Marching Bands--Pictorial works
Military parades & ceremonies--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
Parades--Pictorial works
Theatrical producers and directors--Portraits
I.W. Baird's Famous Minstrels
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (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

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