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I.W. Baird's Famous Minstrels : perfect in every detail - strong and solid

Description: Image of a street scene with a man in a suit, presumably minstrel show proprietor I.W. Baird, holding a bunch of balloons with fourteen of the balloons showing a different minstrel show scene including dancing, acrobatics, singing, drama, and musical performances by costumed performers, female impersonators, and performers in blackface; an older African American man lies on the street touching the balloons, with two dogs and spectators looking on.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1876 and 1889
Call number: priJLC_ENT_001336
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

I.W. Baird’s famous minstrels : streets blockaded to see the matchless musical & military parade free to all

Visual Materials

Image of a street parade led by a band leader and a row of boys in red Zouave military uniforms holding rifles with bayonets and followed by band members in long formal coats and top hats playing musical instruments and carrying a central banner containing a portrait of minstrel show proprietor I. W. Baird with his signature at lower right of banner.

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Baird’s Mammoth Minstrels

Visual Materials

Image of a central head-and-shoulders portrait of minstrel show proprietor I. W. Baird in an oval frame surrounded by musical instruments and a golden statute of a woman playing a guitar; small date sheet for a show beginning July 26, [1886], at the Bush Street Theatre, [San Francisco, California], pasted in lower right corner.

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I.W. Baird’s New Orleans Minstrels advance : twelfth annual tour

Visual Materials

Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of minstrel show proprietor I.W. Baird at the top center of an eight-page letterpress newspaper filled with promotional text about the show's 1880-1881 season, as well as advertisements for products and services and two pages of sheet music for the song and chorus of "One Face Alone" by George M. Vickers and "Will you, darling, write to me?" by W.R. Scott.

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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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[Six minstrel performers dancing]

Visual Materials

Image of caricatures of six male and female minstrel show performers dancing as couples against a solid black background.

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Haverly’s European Mastodon Minstrels : 40 original 40

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

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I.W. Baird's Famous Minstrels : perfect in every detail - strong and solid

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