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Haverly’s Genuine Colored Minstrels

Description: Image of a minstrel blackface marching band, drum major, and an officer on a horse carrying a sword performing outdoors with banners labeled "Haverly's Genuine Colored Minstrels."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1878 and 1885?
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000480
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Haverly’s European Mastodon Minstrels : 40 original 40

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Image of seven captioned vignettes of minstrel show acts: "Haverly's Double California Quartette Assisted by 8 Choristers" with eight men in blackface holding songbooks and singing in a row at top left; "Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels on the grand Parade" with a marching band performing on a street at top center; "The Eight Eminent End Men" with blackface men dancing and holding tambourines at top right; "Haverly's Great Extensive First Part. Numbering Forty Celebrated Artists" with men in blackface sitting in an orchestra, dancing, and playing musical instruments at center; "The Resplendent Clog Tournament" with costumed men in blackface dancing at lower left; a formal head-and-shoulders portrait of show proprietor Jack Haverly at bottom center; and "The Mammoth Song and Dance Festival" with men and women in blackface dancing at bottom right.

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Haverly’s United Mastodon Minstrels : a few of the principal attractions

Visual Materials

Image of seven captioned vignettes of minstrel show acts: "Haverly's Double California Quartette Assisted by 8 Choristers" with eight men in blackface holding songbooks and singing in a row at top left; "Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels on the grand Parade" with a marching band performing on a street at top center; "The Eight Eminent End Men" with blackface men dancing and holding tambourines at top right; "Haverly's Great Extensive First Part. Numbering Forty Celebrated Artists" with men in blackface sitting in an orchestra, dancing, and playing musical instruments at center; "The Resplendent Clog Tournament" with costumed men in blackface dancing at lower left; a formal head-and-shoulders portrait of show proprietor Jack Haverly at bottom center; and "The Mammoth Song an Dance Festival" with men and women in blackface dancing at bottom right.

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Haverly’s European Mastodon Minstrels : Haverly's theatre 12 nights and 6 matinees, commencing Monday, Dec. 26

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Image of an exterior view of the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., during the 1881 inauguration of President James Garfield with a marching band proceeding up the steps to the Capitol's East Portico before rows of soldiers and crowds of spectators; the band is led by a banner labeled "Haverly's European Mastodon Minstrels."

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Galaxy of stars : minstrels

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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.

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Haverly’s Genuine Negro Minstrels : the big black boom

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Image of a seven-piece minstrel band with African American children, a conductor, and a drummer playing musical instruments outdoors with a sunset behind them.

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Haverly’s United Mastodon Minstrels : 40 performers 40

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Image of side-by-side eye-level street views of Haverly's Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, at left, with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages in the street and a sign on the adjacent building for the "Office of the National Printing Company 119 Monroe Street"; and Haverly's Theatre in New York City, at right, showing horse-drawn carriages, crowds of people waiting to enter the building, and the "14th Street Station Elevated Rail Road"; with a top center vignette of the exterior of Haverly's Brooklyn Theatre centered amidst a top vignette of a moving passenger railroad train with a cityscape in the background captioned "Haverly's Special Palace Train en route with Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels from."

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Haverly’s Genuine Colored Minstrels

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