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The world famed M’me Rentz’s celebrated minstrels

Description: Image of a group portrait of a female musical group dressed in formal gowns and seated in a row under a loggia with a lake and trees in the background, with some playing musical instruments including violins, a flute, horn, harp, and cello and accompanied by one male member seated in the center and two male members in blackface at each end also playing instruments; thirteen vignettes with head-and-shoulder portraits of the female performers in formal dress above the central image.
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Date: approximately 187-
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000512
Creator: Last, Jay T

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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[Collage of a burlesque and minstrel performers and acts]

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Image of a collage of vignettes of burlesque, acrobatic, and minstrel acts and performers centered between two standing burlesque dancers in red costumes and including vignettes of the head-and-shoulders of fourteen female performers in formal dress, acrobats performing on bars, trapezes, and in balancing acts on balls and on a tightrope high wire, rows of men dancing with some in blackface, a group of female dancers with jump ropes, and a male minstrel troupe with musical instruments.

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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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Image of two women in profile wearing masks and brimmed hates; elaborate decorative border with female figures playing musical instruments.

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Jarrett & Rice’s new departure : fun on the Bristol : City Hall, Friday, Oct. 29

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Image of a central image of a row of nine male and female performers playing household items as musical instruments including two performers in blackface portraying an African American woman playing a rolling pin as a flute and an African American man playing an umbrella; surrounded by vignettes depicting additional comedic scenes and head-and-shoulder portraits of the nine actors and actresses in the production; the poster advertises the comedy-musical show "Fun on the Bristol, Or a Night on the Sound" managed by Edward E. Rice and Henry C. Jarrett and performing at City Hall (presumably in Portland, Maine) on October 29, [1880].

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Image of a seven-piece minstrel band with African American children, a conductor, and a drummer playing musical instruments outdoors with a sunset behind them.

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The world famed M’me Rentz’s celebrated minstrels

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