Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 494

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MUSIC.) RUCKER, JOHN, 'THE ALABAMA BLOSSOM.' Small flyer-program for John W. Vogel's Afro-American Mastodon Minstrel, combined with the historical 'Darkest America.' 10-1/2 x 4-5/8 inches; paper lightly toned. [New York?], 1898

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An uncommon flyer advertising a minstrel program headlined by John Rucker, one of the most famous black minstrel song and dance men of the day. John Rucker and his company performed in New York's Harlem. This flyer is headed 'The Masonic!,' possibly Brooklyn's Masonic Hall.