Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
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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Visual Materials
Image of minstrel musicians in blackface dressed in formal suits and sitting with their musical instruments on a curtained stage; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of show proprietor Z. W. Sprague at top centered with four corner vignettes of minstrel performers consisting of a man gesturing at top left, a man dancing at top right, a man in a hobo costume holding an umbrella and jumping at bottom right, and two men in hobo costumes playing a banjo and tambourine at bottom left.
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Visual Materials
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.
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Visual Materials
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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Visual Materials
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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Visual Materials
Image of two women in profile wearing masks and brimmed hates; elaborate decorative border with female figures playing musical instruments.
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