(MUSIC MINSTRELSY) The Royal Engineer Coloured Opera Compan

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(MUSIC--MINSTRELSY.) The Royal Engineer Coloured Opera Company, Guards' Institute Will give a Grand Entertainment at the Above Hall Saturday Evening, March 6th, 1869. Letterpress broadside, printed on laid paper 9-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches; some soiling with several short closed tears to the margins. London: Guards' Institute, 1869

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a rare broadside advertising an evening of blackface minstrelsy part of the year's entertainment for the Royal Household. The program includes such classic racist minstrel routines as 'The Ten Little N S,' 'Pretty Little Coralie,' and 'The Coon Hunt.' The evening also included what had to have been a 'spoof' on 'Il Trovatore,' and a comic sketch titled 'Othello, or "Moor the Merrier.' no copies located by oclc.