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Title: Pat Rooney's New York star combination : Woodson and Bennett, character artists
Creator: Central Lith. & Eng. Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
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 three vignettes of head-and-shoulders portraits of minstrel performers Harry Woodson at upper left and Laura Bennett at lower right in formal dress and an older African American man, presumably Woodson in blackface, at upper right, with a xylophone, ribbon bow, and floral panel in the background.
Probable date based on reference to Woodson and Bennett performing with Pat Rooney's New York Star on May 4th-9th in the 1884-1885 show season (Annals of the New York Stage, 1882-1885, Vol. 12, page 530) "Central / Lith & Eng. Co. / Chicago."--text, bottom center of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 74.77 x 56.2 cm (29 7/16 x 22 1/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_001337
443365
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2304
Language: English
Subject: Woodson, Harry, 1852-1898--Portraits
Bennett, Laura, 1860-1939--Portraits
Actors--Portraits
African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
Women--Pictorial works
Pat Rooney's
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Portrait prints. (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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