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Title: [Blackface performer squirted with water]
Creator: Boston Job Print, printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
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 blackface performer wearing a top hat and coat and holding an umbrella getting squirted in the face with water by a white man in a yard between two houses with a bridge and a hand-operated water pump in the background; image comprised of white lines on blue background.
Title and probable date supplied by cataloger; the Boston Job Print firm first appeared in the Boston City Directory around 1874. "Boston Job Print"--text, lower left.
Type: image
Extent: 1 woodcut : color printed ; overall 65.72 x 103.51 cm (25 7/8 x 40 3/4 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000259
386685
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2419
Language: English
Subject: African Americans--Performances & portrayals
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
Theatrical productions
Relief prints--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Theatrical posters--American. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Entertainment
Large Size
Music and Theater
The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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