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Haverly's colossal colored carnival! and genuine colored minstrels [playbill].

Record ID
436679
Object title

Haverly's colossal colored carnival! and genuine colored minstrels [playbill].

Credit line
James Fuld Collection.
Provenance
James Fuld.
Notes
At head of sheet: "Opera house! / 50 performers 50".
J.H. Haverly, proprietor; W.H. Bishop, manager.
"20 end men! 20 end men! / ... The first part concluding with the / Coonville Guards parade / ... Kersands in his specialties / French sabot dance / ... Barnyard froliques / Mr. Bob Mack and his educated chicken. / The Hamtown Bouble Quartette! / followed by / The Blackville Double Quartette! / The whole concluding with Freedman's festival! ..."
John H. "Jack" Haverly, an American theatre manager and promoter of blackface minstrel shows, established Haverly's Minstrels after 1878, when he assumed control of Charles Callender's Original Georgia Minstrels; Haverly promoted performances by his Black performers as "authentic" recreations of Black life in the United States, touring domestically and performing in London in July of 1881 before selling the troupe in 1882.
Associated names
Fuld, James J., 1916-2008, former owner.