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1890s DAISY MARKOE as Topsy Uncle Tom's Cabin vaudeville small broadside+others

$ 118.8

Availability: 100 in stock
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Condition: Used
  • Culture: Black Americana
  • Provenance: estate sale purchase

    Description

    VAUDEVILLE SMALL BROADSIDES ca. 1890s; UNCLE TOM’S CABIN; DAISY MARKOE AS TOPSY, etc.] 5 SMALL BROADSIDES AND NOTICES FOR CA. 1890s VAUDEVILLE PERFORMANCES, notably 3” x 5” “The Markoe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co….Miss Daisy Markoe as Topsy
    …with Songs, Dances, and Banjo Solos…” and 4-1/2” x 9-1/2” “The Home Minstrels In a new program. The following gentlemen who arrived too late Saturday evening will positively be on hand…Mr. Louis Crandall, Mr. Will Curtis, Mr. Chas Fairbank…”, with 6” x 6” pink paper Reed’s Comedians!…in the greatest of all immotional [sic] dramas entitled:Hazel Kirke”; 3-1/2” x 8” “Reed’s Comedians…in the great 4 act comedy entitled: The Phoenix”; The Dayne and Fanshaw Stock Company In the Great Domestic Comedy…The CountryPostmaster”; “Cast of Characters” slip 2-1/4” x 5-1/2” including a “southern planter,” a character “from the north,” “a mischievous pickaninny,” the “pride of the plantation,” and “De [sic] Distinguished Members of the Abolition Club at Kansas City”, made up of 11 African-American characters with caricature names of the period of discrimination such as The Honorable Parson Slopfoot, Grand Roosting Rooster; The Honorable Abe De Nappyhead; Madame Africana; all 6 items affixed along top edge to 7” x 12” lined page, on reverse side 4 small broadsides/notices for 4 other vaudeville performances on the day
    /// POINTS OF INTEREST:
    from an online source, “The Great Double Company includes the World Famous Topsy, Miss Daisy Markoe With Songs and Dances, Banjo and Zolophone Solos…”
    /// CONDITION:
    well-preserved with light normal wear.