Image of a camp meeting outdoors with blackface entertainer Hughey Dougherty leaning against a table and shaking an umbrella over his head with one hand, exhorting to a group of men and women performers in blackface sitting on wooden benches; tents and two pairs of feet lying under an umbrella visible in background at left. 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 78.11 x 103.51 cm (30 3/4 x 40 3/4 in.)
Advertising--Performing arts African Americans--Pictorial works Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works Camp meetings--Pictorial works Men--Pictorial works Minstrel shows Performances--Pictorial works Women--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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