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Cover, Old Slack's Reminiscence and Pocket History of the Colored Profession 1865-1898
xxxiv, 123 pages : portrait ; 18 cm
Cotton & Long
This image is a scanned reproduction of the one published in the New York Dramatic Mirror at the turn of the 20th century. At that point in time, newspapers used "half tone" screens to reproduce the original photograph. The shot is taken from the…
Uncle Snow
3 verses and chorus
22 x 13.4 cm
22 x 13.4 cm
Detail, "Oh Bob Ridley, O." H. de Marsan, Right Margin
Right margin, depicting black Shakespearian "Juliet," listening in rapture as her Romeo performs below on a banjo.
25 x 15.6 cm.
25 x 15.6 cm.
Detail, "Oh Bob Ridley, O.," H. de Marsan, Left Margin
A black minstrel plays the banjo on the street below the balcony where his lover listens in rapture.
25 x 15.6 cm.
25 x 15.6 cm.
Detail, Oh Bob Ridley, O., H. de Marsand, Masthead
Masthead, "Ethiopian" Black babies portrayed as angels play bones and tamborine.
25 x 15.6 cm.
25 x 15.6 cm.
Come Plung Gum
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 25 x 16 cm
Old Bob Ridley, O!
Mr. Cotton's Popular and Celebrated Song, sung by more than 200 nights at the late Cartee's Lyceum.
