Image of three unattached panels with images of blackface actors, acrobats, and dancers performing outdoors and consisting of male and female costumed actors performing a theatrical scene, thirteen identically dressed acrobats in midair doing flips in unison, and six couples dancing. Margins and title trimmed from local copy; title, probable date range, and printer supplied by cataloger based on similar images in collection (see priJLC_ENT_000468 ; priJLC_ENT_000488). Item includes three panels: priJLC_ENT_000509:01 ; priJLC_ENT_000509:02 ; priJLC_ENT_000509:03
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 52.07 x 41.28 cm (20 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.)
Acrobats--Pictorial works Actors--Pictorial works African Americans--Performances & portrayals African Americans--Pictorial works Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works Dancers--Pictorial works Minstrel shows Lithographs--Color--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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