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(MUSIC—MINSTRELSY.)
Third Week of Sanford’s Opera
Troupe of Ethiopians.
Letterpress the-
atre poster with an engraved vignette of a
ten-man minstrel troupe, their instruments
in hand, 18
1
/
2
x 8
1
/
2
inches; paper evenly
toned. Framed.
Boston Museum, Friday, 25 July circa
[1856]
[800/1,200]
A wonderful poster with the image of a min-
strel troupe with their instruments. Sanford’s
Opera Troupe was active from 1853 to 1857.
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(MUSIC.) MILLIE—CHRISTINE.
Two Cartes-de-visite.
Standard size
cartes, one with a finely printed biography
on the reverse; the other shows the girls
somewhat older and a bit heavier; some
toning to both.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
New York: Ollivier Photo,
circa 1865-1870
[400/600]
An interesting pair of images of the conjoined
twins, sometime referred to as the “Two-headed
Nightingale.” The biography on the reverse of
one of them is written in blank verse, obviously
written for the twins.
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