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(MUSIC—MINSTRELSY.)
The Royal Engineer Coloured Opera
Company, Guards’ Institute Will give a Grand Entertainment at the Above Hall
Saturday Evening, March 6th, 1869.
Letterpress broadside, printed on laid paper 9
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London: Guards’ Institute, 1869
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A RARE BROADSIDE ADVERTISING AN EVENING OF BLACKFACE MINSTRELSY PART OF
THE YEAR
’
S ENTERTAINMENT FOR THE
R
OYAL
H
OUSEHOLD
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The program includes such
classic racist minstrel routines as “The Ten Little N* * * ***S,” “Pretty Little Coralie,” and
“The Coon Hunt.” The evening also included what had to have been a “spoof” on “Il
Trovatore,” and a comic sketch titled “Othello, or “Moor the Merrier.”
NO COPIES LOCATED
BY OCLC
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(MUSIC.) MILLIE CHRISTINE.
2 Headed Girl. Millie Crissie.
Carte de visite.
St Louis, MO, circa 1865-1870
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A RARE EARLY IMAGE OF THE NOTED CONJOINED TWINS
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Born in 1851, the twins were
taken from their parents, and sold three or four times, and placed on display at fairs and “freak
shows” from New Orleans to Canada. At one time, having been sold to J.P. Smith, they were
kidnapped and taken to England. Smith retrieved them with the aid of their mother and they
were brought back to North Carolina. Smith then taught them to read and write; they taught
themselves music, and were proficient on several instruments. They then settled into a routine of
touring and performing. The twins passed away in 1912.
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