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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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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
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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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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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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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Minstrels. : New song & dance. - The barbers holiday
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Image of a minstrel dance scene in an outdoor courtyard with five African American men dancing in the foreground before six dancing African American women holding folding fans and a row of African American soldiers in the background, with a young boy holding a sign labeled "Haverly's Cadets" at right and a boy with two buckets at his feet at left of dancers.
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