Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Haverly's Mastodon Minstrels : the oldest organization in America
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Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
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Visual Materials
Image of a head-and-shoulders group portrait of minstrel show proprietors J.H. Haverly and W.S. Cleveland in a medal-like circle frame.
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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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Image of side-by-side eye-level street views of Haverly's Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, at left, with pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages in the street and a sign on the adjacent building for the "Office of the National Printing Company 119 Monroe Street"; and Haverly's Theatre in New York City, at right, showing horse-drawn carriages, crowds of people waiting to enter the building, and the "14th Street Station Elevated Rail Road"; with a top center vignette of the exterior of Haverly's Brooklyn Theatre centered amidst a top vignette of a moving passenger railroad train with a cityscape in the background captioned "Haverly's Special Palace Train en route with Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels from."
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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 an Dance Festival" with men and women in blackface dancing at bottom right.
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