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Haverly’s Genuine Negro Minstrels : the big black boom

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1878 and 1885
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000481
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 Genuine Colored Minstrels

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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."

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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 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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I.W. Baird’s famous minstrels : streets blockaded to see the matchless musical & military parade free to all

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Image of a street parade led by a band leader and a row of boys in red Zouave military uniforms holding rifles with bayonets and followed by band members in long formal coats and top hats playing musical instruments and carrying a central banner containing a portrait of minstrel show proprietor I. W. Baird with his signature at lower right of banner.

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Oscar F. Hodge Presents Neil O’Brien great American super-minstrels

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Image of a central image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of minstrel performer Neil O’Brien in formal dress, surrounded by an upper left image of a group portrait of an orchestra, with members in blackface, seated outdoors with their musical instruments and a plantation-style mansion in the background, and a lower right image of a group portrait of a male minstrel troupe in blackface posing next to blackface performers playing a dice game; with a sketch of an African American family dancing to banjo music in front of a rural cabin at lower left and a sketch of steamships coming into a port with cargo on the docks at upper right.

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Haverly’s Genuine Negro Minstrels : the big black boom

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