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[Blackface performer squirted with water]

Description: Image of a blackface performer wearing a top hat and coat and holding an umbrella getting squirted in the face with water by a white man in a yard between two houses with a bridge and a hand-operated water pump in the background; image comprised of white lines on blue background.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: after 1873
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000259
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Howorth’s Hibernica Comedy Company

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Image of a central image of a horse-drawn cart with a driver and two male passengers on a rural country road with a hay bale and cabin in the background, surrounded by nine vignettes of full-length portraits of performers including a female performer in a formal gown singing from sheet music, a man dressed as Uncle Sam with a carpet bag, a male minstrel performer dancing in blackface, and a young boy; the vignettes are set against a background of green clover; the poster advertises Howorth's Hibernica Comedy Company.

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Scribner's Mag[azine] : October

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Image of an advertisement for Scribner's magazine October 1894 issue; woman stands in a dress with her coat over one arm reading a copy of Scribner's under her umbrella; large image of the cover of Scribner's in background.

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

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

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Lew Dockstader’s Minstrels : George Powers banjoist and comedian

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Image of a full-length portrait of minstrel performer George Powers seated in blackface.

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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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[Blackface performer squirted with water]

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