Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 469

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MUSIC--MINSTRELSY.) Sanford's Opera House. Sanford's Opera Troupe. Letterpress playbill, 21-1/2 x 8 inches; lacks a small portion at the top, obscuring the tops of a few letters in the word "Opera." [Philadelphia,] 1860
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Samuel S. Sanford (1821-1905) was one of the earliest blackface minstrels, at his peak in the mid-nineteenth century. He published numerous collections of songs, in all, 36 works, appearing in 121 publications in 3 languages. The present playbill bears an excellent engraved vignette at the top showing a group of slaves playing music and dancing in a cabin. While numerous other playbills from Sanford's Opera Troupe are located in OCLC, we could find no copy of the present one.