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(MUSIC—MINSTRELSY.) DUDLEY, SHERMAN HOUSTON.
S.H. Dudley.
Smart Set.
Photo-pictorial poster, printed on heavy cardstock13
1
⁄
2
x 12
1
⁄
2
inches; small,
closed tear to the top between the “H” and the “D.”
[Place, date.]
[400/600]
Sherman Houston Dudley (1872 - 1940) was an African American vaudeville performer and
theatre entrepreneur. He gained notability in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as
an individual performer, composer of ragtime songs, and as a member and later owner of various
minstrel shows including the Smart Set. Dudley is also notable as one of the first African
Americans to combine business with theater, by starting a black theater circuit, in which theaters
were owned or operated by African Americans and provided entertainment by and for African
Americans.
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482
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(MUSIC—MINSTRELSY.)
Ferguson’s Dixie Jubilee Concert
Company, The Best Company of
Colored Talent in the World.
16 pages
of printed music with lyrics. Large 4to,
original pictorial grebe wrappers, staples
rusted.
Chicago: W. H. Gage, circa 1890’s-1900
[400/600]
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