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Title
Don’t stop us: we are off to Moore & Burgess" minstrels
Creator
Stafford & Co., printer
Contributor
Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
1902
1903
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 caricature of a couple in blackface riding on a tandem bicycle in formal dress and large hats; date sheet for shows at Albert Hall in Nottingham, England, printed in top margin.
Probable date approximated by cataloger based on month and day in item text and similar text in newspaper advertisements. "Albert Hall, / Nottingham. For Six Nights and Two Matinees. / Commencing Monday, March 21st ... Agent in advance ... Mr. W. T. Martin-Comstock. Acting Manager ... Mr. Tom Mowbray"--text, printed date sheet at top right. "2198"--text, bottom right. "Stafford & Co. Netherfield Nottm."--text, bottom right. "18/36"--text, in pencil, bottom right margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 51.12 x 38.74 cm (20 1/8 x 15 1/4 in.)
Identifier
priJLC_ENT_000495
387669
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/1767
Language
English
Subject
African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Bicycles--Pictorial works
Caricatures and cartoons
Minstrel shows
Foreign
Moore and Burgess Minstrels
Albert Hall
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Theatrical posters--England. (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_000504

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