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Blackface entertainers

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8 images from works
  • He's back with a better routine : Amoxil a virtuoso performer in chest infections.
  • He's back with a better routine : Amoxil a virtuoso performer in chest infections.
  • McMahon and King performing as blackface ministrels.
  • Thomas D. Rice performing the "Jump Jim Crow" song and dance in front of British members of the House of Lords. Lithograph by I.H..
  • Benjamin Disraeli as a blackface minstrel wearing a crown and holding an umbrella. Engraving by W. Dewane, 1879.
  • McMahon and King performing as blackface ministrels.
  • He's back with a better routine : Amoxil a virtuoso performer in chest infections.
  • Guy's Hospital, Southwark: Christmas entertainments. Process print by Meisenbach after H. Johnson, 1888.

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    McMahon and King performing as blackface ministrels.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919?] | Reference: 2044759i
    Part of: James Gardiner Collection: photograph album labelled ‘Drag’.
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    Benjamin Disraeli as a blackface minstrel wearing a crown and holding an umbrella. Engraving by W. Dewane, 1879.

    Dewane, William D. | Date: 1879 | Reference: 568562i
    Part of: Victorian album of political satires.
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    Thomas D. Rice performing the "Jump Jim Crow" song and dance in front of British members of the House of Lords. Lithograph by I.H..

    I.H., active 1837. | Date: [1837?] | Reference: 34224i
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    He's back with a better routine : Amoxil a virtuoso performer in chest infections.

    | Date: 1974
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    Two performers in front of a painted backdrop.

    | Date: [between 1880 and 1890?] | Reference: 3320275i
    Part of: The James Gardiner Collection.
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