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Title: Petts & Straffin’s : Minstrels Co. burlesque opera troupe
Creator: W. J. Morgan & Co., 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 a central image of minstrel musicians in blackface dressed in formal suits sitting on a stage and holding musical instruments and surrounded by top and bottom vignettes of male and female minstrels dancing and performing skits in costumes; with three caricatures of performers at top of image.
Probable date based on date provided for image in Black, American advertising posters of the nineteenth century, page 113. "W. J. Morgan & Co. Lith. Cleveland. O."--text, bottom margin centered.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 71.76 x 56.52 cm (28 1/4 x 22 1/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000506
387679
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2297
Language: English
Subject: African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Bands (Music)--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Caricatures and cartoons
Minstrel shows
Petts & Straffin’s Minstrels Co. and Burlesque Opera Troupe
Lithographs--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Theatrical posters--American. (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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