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“A striking likeness of Mr. Clarke’s servant the black & white negro” hand-colored print, 1791
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Adelphi Theatre (Edinburgh, Scotland) playbills, 1851 July 5-21 Digital
12 playbills for various productions featuring Ira Aldridge.
Adelphi Theatre (London, England) broadside, 1839 October 16
Illustrated with a woodcut of an elephant. Features Issac Van Ambrugh’s Astonishing and Intellectual Elephant and J. H. Hackett as Rip Van Winkle, with T. D. Rice, “The Famous Representative of Negro Peculiarity” playing alternating evenings the same week
Adelphi Theatre (London, England) “Jocko; or, the Brazilian Ape” playbill, 1832 September 5
Featuring Signor Martini
Adelphi Theatre (London, England) “Yates’ Reminiscences” playbill, 1826 April 17-22
Featuring Frederick Henry Yates
Ambassadors Theatre (London, England) "The Emperor Jones" program, 1925
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Anonymous. "Leben und Künstler-Laufbahn des Negers Ira Aldridge." Berlin: Allgemeine Deutsch Verlags-Unstalt, 1853 Digital
Presentation copy of stage biography signed by Ira Aldridge to Fraülein [sic] Engle, April 29, 1854.
Arthur Ferrier caricature of Paul Robeson as Othello, undated
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Black Musicians
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Blind Tom
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Books
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Broadsides and playbills
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Bull & George Inn (Ramsgate, England) “Spotted Negro Boy" broadside and clipping, circa 1789
"For Five Days Only at the Bull & George Inn, High-Street, Ramsgate, from the Caribee Islands in the West Indes Aged Three Years and a Half." With a contemporary article about the Spotted Boy mentioning his death at age 4 years 9 months.
Carl Gutenberg engraved portrait of a female black child with piebaldism holding bird in hand, circa 1790
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Charles Hunt "Life in Philadelphia plate 2. 'Take away dose rosy lips..’ " hand-colored print, undated
From a poem by Robert Burns
Charles Hunt "Life in Philadelphia. Romeo and Juliet" hand-colored print, undated
Published by W. H. Isaacs
Charles Hunt "Tregears Black Jokes no. 9: Othello, Desdemona asleep" hand-colored print, undated
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Circus
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Clicko "bushman with bow and arrow" print, undated
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Covent Garden Theatre (London, England) “Jocko, the Brazilian Monkey,” playbill, 1825 November 9
Featuring Monsieur Mazurier
Croatian Broadside, 1853 November 10 Digital
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.
Duncombe's miniature caricature magazine. No. 4. "Box Company, or a trip to Croydon" hand-colored print, undated
Published by Duncombe Book & Music Seller
Dutch print of Aldridge as Othello, 1852 Digital
Printed biography from De Tyd (1852) attached
E. T. Smith "The African twins" print, 1855
Caption on print reads: The African twins, first exhibited at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, by E. J. Smith 1855.
Embassy Theatre (London, England) "Stevedore" program, 1935 May
Collection includes approximately 200 prints, broadsides, photographs, programs, and manuscript and printed ephemera.