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

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1917 and 1920
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000494
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.

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

Visual Materials

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

Al. G. Field Big Minstrels : Dan Quinlan the Chesterfield of modern minstrelsy

Visual Materials

Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of minstrel interlocutor Dan Quinlan; small vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of show proprietor Al. G. Field at top right.

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

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.

priJLC_ENT_000491

Sprague’s Original Georgia Minstrels

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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McNish, Johnson & Slavin's refined minstrels. The versatile comedian Carroll Johnson

Visual Materials

Image of a full-length portrait of minstrel show performer Carroll Johnson standing in formal dress in a theater lobby with a sign for his performance and four portraits of blackface minstrel characters with three captioned "Uncle Jeff," Pretty Little Kate," and "Man Wreck Oh" hanging on the wall behind him.

priJLC_ENT_000486

Lew Dockstader’s Minstrels : Dave Foy the Goliath of comedy

Visual Materials

Image of a full-length portrait of minstrel show performer Dave Foy in blackface.

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

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