Barlow, Wilson and Co.’s Mammoth Minstrels : the peoples choice
Description
Image of a twelve-member male and female African American troupe posing in a row outdoors, with men in matching suits and women in matching dresses holding parasols.
Image of twelve male and female circus equestrians standing in a row outdoors, with their horses behind them, and a ringmaster and two female clowns in front of them.
Image of a full-length group portrait of show proprietors Milt G. Barlow, Geo. Wilson, G. H. Primrose and W. H. West, with the signature of each man printed below his image, standing around a fishbowl in a parlor with floor-length curtains framing the scene; a bald eagle with spread wings holds a "WBPW" monogram and a medal labeled "The People's Choice" from its beak, at top center.
Image of a central image of minstrel musicians in blackface dressed in formal suits sitting on a stage and holding musical instruments and surrounded by top and bottom vignettes of male and female minstrels dancing and performing skits in costumes; with three caricatures of performers at top of image.
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.
Image of a collage of vignettes of burlesque, acrobatic, and minstrel acts and performers centered between two standing burlesque dancers in red costumes and including vignettes of the head-and-shoulders of fourteen female performers in formal dress, acrobats performing on bars, trapezes, and in balancing acts on balls and on a tightrope high wire, rows of men dancing with some in blackface, a group of female dancers with jump ropes, and a male minstrel troupe with musical instruments.
![[Three minstrel scenes of actors, acrobats and dancers]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4VDE67B%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
![[Collage of a burlesque and minstrel performers and acts]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4E32TQ6%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)
![[Twelve banjo players]](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frail.huntington.org%2FIIIF3%2FImage%2F22APN4E3BY1H%2Ffull%2F%5E360%2C%2F0%2Fdefault.jpg&w=750&q=75)