Blackface minstrelsy
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of Billy Emerson minstrel performance ephemera
FOUND IN:
Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 2182
Overview:
Joke book and other ephemera from Billy Emerson's blackface minstrel act.
Harvard Theatre Collection popular entertainment playbills, posters, prints, and clippings
FOUND IN:
Houghton Library
Collection Identifier: MS Thr 1835
Overview:
Contains depictions of popular entertainment including circuses, equestrian and acrobatic acts, automata, processions, pageants, tableaux, puppetry, commedia dell'arte, Harlequinade and pantomime, and burlesque performances, including advertisements, playbills, posters, programs, printed illustrations, and newspaper clippings.