Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 481

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MUSIC--EARLY MINSTRELSY.) Monday, July 4, 1864 Grand Gala Day, The Rubicon Crossed VENI!!! VIDI!!! VICI!!! Second Week of the Campbell Minstrels . . . Ethiopian Oddities . . . Banjo Quartette . . . Dan Emmett's Plantation Scene, Black Brigade. Large letterpress broadside, 23 x 8-7/8 inches, attached to cardstock; discoloration down the blank right margin and along the bottom edge; paper lightly and evenly toned; matted and in an old frame. Brooklyn, New York, 1864

Additional Details

A large broadside for a wartime performance in Brooklyn, New York of Campbell's Minstrels, which included the noted black-face banjo player W.S. Budworth. This large broadside promises 'Novelty Upon Novelty,' in the form of numerous musical skits, a banjo quartette, 'Ethiopian 'Oddities' and a bone solo, concluding with the 'Entire Troop' in a number by the most famous of all minstrels, Dan Emmett, titled 'The Black Brigade,' no doubt a reference to the use of black troops beginning exactly a year before.