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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
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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 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

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