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Sprague’s Original Georgia Minstrels

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1878 and 1883
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000508
Creator: Last, Jay T

Haverly’s European Mastodon Minstrels : 40 original 40

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

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

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

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Haverly’s American European original mastodon minstrels : Howe & Doyle

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Image of a central image of minstrel clog dancers Sam Howe and Patrick Doyle (also known as Patsy Doyle or Patsey Doyle) dancing on a stage with a black cherub holding leaf crowns over their heads, with two side panels showing Howe and Doyle as children climbing under theater curtains at left, and dancing before a male teacher disciplining with a whip at right; framed head-and-shoulders portraits of minstrel show proprietors J.H. Haverly and W.S. Cleveland at upper left and Howe and Doyle at upper right.

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This is to certify that Andrew B. Elliott was duly invested with the degree of Ceres

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Image of a man and woman pulling a curtain back to reveal a family on a porch overlooking livestock and crop fields on a farm; fruits, vegetables, and grain in foreground; decorative floral border at top left; color seal with ribbon attached at bottom right.

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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.

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Petts & Straffin’s : Minstrels Co. burlesque opera troupe

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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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Sprague’s Original Georgia Minstrels

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