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Wilson & Rankin’s Minstrels : Geo. Wilson

Description: Image of a three-quarter length portrait of minstrel performer George Wilson in formal dress; floral design in lower left border.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1885 and 1888
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000511
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."

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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."

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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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Van Osten & Day Concert Co. : Miss Laura B. Phelps violin virtuoso

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Image of a three-quarter-length portrait of musician Laura Phelps wearing a formal dress and holding a violin, with floral border.

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

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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.

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Over the garden wall : Mrs. Geo. S. Knight

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American burlesque performer Sophie Worrell Knight in formal dress and wearing a large hat and framed by an Art Nouveau-style floral border; the poster advertises the musical and burlesque show "Over the Garden Wall" by Scott Marble produced by Knight and her husband, German comedian George S. Knight.

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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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Wilson & Rankin’s Minstrels : Geo. Wilson

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