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Title: Warfield & Weeks minstrels : one night in a medical college our funny after piece
Creator: R. H. Eichner & Co. Lith., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1880
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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 an advertisement for Warfield & Weeks minstrel show, "One Night in a Medical College;" eight African-American men are pictured in a hospital room, five of them holding torches in medical robes that resemble long nightshirts with pointed caps, two brandish knives and razors, and one laying on a cot; two skeletons peek out of barrels in the background; bust-length portraits of
Date supplied by cataloger based on printer history; R. H. Eichner & Co. Lith.is listed in city directories for Baltimore between 1880-1895. "R. H. Eichner & Co. Lith. Baltimore, MD."--text, bottom left margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 58.42 x 77.47 cm (23 x 30 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_004747
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http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/5466
Language: English
Subject: Advertising--Performing arts
African Americans--Pictorial works
Hospitals--Pictorial works
Men--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
Performances--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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