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Title: Galaxy of stars : minstrels
Creator: Riverside Printing Company, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1890
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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 parade of minstrel performers in blackface led by a horse-drawn carriage through an outdoor park space, and followed by a marching band playing musical instruments and men in yellow coats and top hats, with a railroad caboose labeled "Galaxy of Stars / Minstrels" in the background and spectators watching the procession.
Margins and title trimmed from local copy; probable date approximated by cataloger. "Riverside / Printing Co. / Milwaukee"--text in star-shaped logo at bottom right corner of image. "2172"--text, bottom right corner of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 66.99 x 107.95 cm (26 3/8 x 42 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000472
387648
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2200
Language: English
Subject: African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
Marching bands--Pictorial works
Parades--Pictorial works
Galaxy of Stars Minstrels
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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