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Great musical drama, "out of bondage" : only Colored dramatic company in the world

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Description: Title derived from text on print. Includes image of six male and female African American actors shown performing Out of Bondage, the first play about slavery performed by an African American cast. Image possibly includes depictions of the Hyers Sisters, Anna Madah and Emma Louise on stage.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1876.
Call number: priPEF 51
Provenance: Purchased from John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller, August 1999.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.; Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

The Alleghanians, vocalists and bell-players : as they appeared at the Crystal Palace, London, Jany. 6th. 1866, before an audience of eleven thousand, three hundred & eighty four person

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Image of two female and three male members of the Alleghanians musical group performing on the stage of the Crystal Palace in London, England, to a full audience before them, with a British and an American flag behind them; one member plays a harpsichord, while the others stand holding sheet music and singing, with their Swiss bells on a table behind them.

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Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey : The great Alzanas world renowned high wire daredevils

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Image of male high-wire walker Harold Alzana performing two acts on a high wire tightrope including one with two female aerialists suspended from a bicycle; "The Greatest Show on Earth" globe logo at lower left; one layer of a photomechanical print of a portion of a figure wearing a tuxedo and top hat started on verso.

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Colored man is no slacker [graphic]

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A color offset lithograph poster depicting an African American man and woman in embrace. The male partner is dressed in infantry uniform, while the female partner is dressed in a blue-and-white dress and spatterdashes. They are illustrated as holding hands and parting with one another, assumably the man enlisted to join the group of African American infantrymen marching with a 42-star U.S. flag behind them. The couple is centered below a doorstep on a walkway surrounded by columns, red and yellow roses, and white and blue flowers. The background includes blue skies with green foliage and trees. The title, "Colored Man is No Slacker" is printed in blue below the couple. Signed and copyrighted on lower left corner by artist, "1918. E.G. Renesch, Chicago."

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Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : first American appearance the great Hungarian riders the "Konyot" family absolutely the world's foremost equestrians

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Image of the two female and four male members of the Konyot family of equestrians performing two simultaneous acts balancing on the back of a moving horse in a tented circus ring, with a top central vignette of a formal group portrait of the troupe.

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Lion brace : manufactured by the American Suspender Company

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Image of a female lion tamer performing with a lion; the lion rises on its hind legs as the woman pulls on suspender straps at the animal's mouth; two images of medallions with German text indicating an award of merit at the "Weltausstellung 1873 Wein" (1873 World Exposition in Vienna) with looped suspenders at top center; American Suspender Company monogram "ASC" at bottom center.

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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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Great musical drama, "out of bondage" : only Colored dramatic company in the world

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