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

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1912 and 1922
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000491

George Thatcher and Carroll Johnson’s Minstrels : George Thatcher America's greatest minstrel and punster

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Image of a three-quarter-length portrait of minstrel performer George Thatcher at upper left, with a full-length portrait of Thatcher in blackface dressed as a character at lower right.

priJLC_ENT_000473

The J. H. Haverly Mastodon Minstrels : "Waltz me again."

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Image of a three-quarter-length portrait of minstrel performer George Wilson in blackface wearing a white suit with a vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Wilson in formal dress in an oval frame at lower left and captioned "Geo. Wilson."

priJLC_ENT_000485

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

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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 an Dance Festival" with men and women in blackface dancing at bottom right.

priJLC_ENT_000483

Al. G. Field Minstrels : Billy Beard the party from the South

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of minstrel performer Billy Beard in blackface, with a vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Beard in formal dress at upper right.

priJLC_ENT_000494

Haverly’s European Mastodon Minstrels : 40 original 40

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 and Dance Festival" with men and women in blackface dancing at bottom right.

priJLC_ENT_000479

Pat Rooney's New York star combination : Woodson and Bennett, character artists

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Image of three vignettes of head-and-shoulders portraits of minstrel performers Harry Woodson at upper left and Laura Bennett at lower right in formal dress and an older African American man, presumably Woodson in blackface, at upper right, with a xylophone, ribbon bow, and floral panel in the background.

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

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