Image of a collage of images of minstrel blackface performers consisting of a caricature of an African American actor in a blue gown standing on a stage with men in blackface crying into tissues in the audience and one holding a program titled "Sarah B Adrien French English," and two cherubs crying from the balcony with a man catching their tears in a bucket below at lower center; a man in blackface dancing in a Scottish Highland costume with a kilt, sporran, and Tam o' Shanter cap at top left; and the back of a woman dancing in a yellow-and-red dress at top right. Margins and title trimmed from local copy; probable date approximated by cataloger based on supposition that item text refers to French actress Sarah Bernhardt who first performed in the United States in 1880 and was impersonated by female impersonators in minstrel and vaudeville shows in the 1880s.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 78.42 x 33.02 cm (30 7/8 x 13 in.)
African Americans--Performances & portrayals African Americans--Pictorial works Actors--Pictorial works Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works Caricatures and cartoons Costume--Scotland--Highlands Crying--Pictorial works Minstrel shows Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters. (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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