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

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    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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  • America's own musical artists Fields and Hoey. Dancers and vocalists

    America's own musical artists Fields and Hoey. Dancers and vocalists

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    Image of head-and-shoulders portraits of musicians and dancers John F. Fields and William F. Hoey in formal dress in oval frames bordered by stars, musical instruments, and wreaths of leaves; the poster advertises the minstrel and musical duo of Fields and Hoey and includes the fragment of a date sheet for the Theatre Comique in New York City.

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  • Buckley's New Orleans Serenades : who have appeared with great success in the following countries, England, Ireland

    Buckley's New Orleans Serenades : who have appeared with great success in the following countries, England, Ireland

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    Image of a central image of eight musicians, in blackface, sitting in a row and playing musical instruments including banjoes, a violin, a guitar, and a tambourine, surrounded by vignettes of the Buckley Serenaders consisting of images of their performances in theaters before full audiences, captioned "As they appeared at the Drury Lane, London," "As they appeared in Mexico," an image of the troupe traveling through the California wilderness on horseback captioned, "As they Appeared in California," head-and-shoulders portraits of James Buckley, Richard Buckley, George Buckley, and Frederick Buckley in formal dress, and four smaller vignettes of the minstrels performing in costume; decorated with an ornate floral borders with musical instruments and two black cherubs.

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    Music Hall, New Haven

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    With woodcut images of musical instruments and minstrel performers from Bryant's Minstrels

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    [Musicians playing stringed instruments]

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    Image of sixteen blackface minstrel musicians wearing top hats affixed with spoons and playing stringed musical instruments, including guitars, lutes, banjos, and cellos, on a platform stage.

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    Printer: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, Printers, Stereotypers, and Book-binders With a woodcut image of musical instruments for Christy's Minstrels

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