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  • Levee scene on the Mississippi

    Levee scene on the Mississippi

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    Image of African American men sitting on a dock along a levee dancing, singing, playing music on a banjo, and playing cards in the foreground with a bustling port in the background showing horse-drawn wagons, cargo in barrels, crates, and bales being unloaded from steamboats lined up along the Mississippi River, including ones presumably named "Jacob Strader" and "Memphis"; some warehouses appear to say "St. Paul."

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  • The dawn of freedom

    The dawn of freedom

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    Image of goddess Columbia as an angel wrapped in an American flag holding a sword and carrying an Irish flag flying above workers and United States soldiers on foot and on horseback; ships in harbor in distance; portraits of two men, including Irish revolutionary Robert Emmet, in the sky near Columbia.

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  • Primrose & West's Minstrels : 'evolution' of the 'song & dance.'

    Primrose & West's Minstrels : 'evolution' of the 'song & dance.'

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    Image of a central inset image of caricatured African Americans in formal dresses and suits dancing at a wedding with a band in the background and a bride and groom at the front, with the caption "The Present 'Dancin' wid de bride.'" between an image at left of African tribesmen dancing bare-chested in a grassy area while a man plays drums in the foreground with huts and palm fronds in the background, captioned "The Origin in African Wilds." and an image at right of African Americans dancing on a flat boat on a river while a dog sits at front near a man playing a banjo, with an alcohol bottle in the water and a steamboat visible in background; with ornate yellow border.

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  • Sprague’s Original Georgia Minstrels

    Sprague’s Original Georgia Minstrels

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    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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  • Whig pavilion, Boston common July 4th 1834

    Whig pavilion, Boston common July 4th 1834

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    Image of a large pavilion on Boston Common in Boston, Massachusetts, with an American flag flying above in a celebration for the Fourth of July in 1834.

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  • Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows : Pallenberg's wonder bears

    Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows : Pallenberg's wonder bears

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    Image of a male animal trainer with ten bears performing various acts including roller skating, bicycling, playing musical instruments, stilt walking, tightrope walking, and dancing under a circus tent.

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