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Title: [Twelve banjo players]
Creator: Morgan, Matthew Somerville, 1839-1890, artist
Strobridge & Co. Lith., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1879
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 twelve musicians in matching suits and boater hats standing in a semi-circle outdoors playing banjos.
Margins and title trimmed from local copy; title supplied by cataloger. "Matt Morgan"--text, artist's signature in stone, bottom left. "Copyright secured / by A.A. Stewart, 1879."--text, bottom centered. "Strobridge & Co. Lith. Cin., O."--text, bottom right.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 49.53 x 93.03 cm (19 1/2 x 36 5/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_ENT_000468
443259
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/2227
Language: English
Subject: African Americans--Performances & portrayals
African Americans--Pictorial works
Banjoists--Pictorial works
Blackface entertainers--Pictorial works
Minstrel shows
Musical groups--Pictorial works
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
Relation: priJLC_ENT_000488

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