Image of an advertisement for Minnie Foster's production of Uncle Tom's Cabin at Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and older African American actor reads a book aloud while sitting on a bench outdoors with a young blond girl under an image of an angel offering the same man her hand; vignettes of slave life including a dancing African American woman with a banjo, running dogs, two men riding a horse and a mule, and a slave auction block; decorative border. Date approximated by cataloger based on performer history; Minnie Foster was a prominent performer in Uncle Tom's Cabin performances in the 1860s and 1870s. "[Fulton Opera House]"--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 107.16 x 71.28 cm (42 3/16 x 28 1/16 in.)
Advertising--Performing arts Actors--Pictorial works Actresses--Pictorial works African Americans--Pictorial works Angels--Pictorial works Dogs--Pictorial works Girls--Pictorial works Uncle Tom (Fictitious character)--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc) Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Entertainment Large Size Performing Arts: Music and Theater The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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