(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) STOWE HARRIET BEECHER THE HYERS SIST

Sale 2308 - Lot 149

Price Realized: $ 2,040

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER-THE HYERS SISTERS. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Letterpress playbill, printed on both sides 18-1/8 x 5-3/4 inches with a large engraved vignette on each side; creases where folded; paper evenly toned. [Bridgeport, CT, 1889]

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a rare playbill for a performance of uncle tom's cabin with the hyers sisters. The Hyers Sisters, Anna Madah (1855 - 1929) and Emma Louise (1857 - 1901), were singer/actresses and pioneers of black musical theater. With Joseph Bradford and Pauline Hopkins, the Hyers Sisters produced the "first full-fledged musical plays... in which African Americans themselves comment on the plight of the slaves and the relief of Emancipation without the disguises of minstrel comedy." (Hill. The Hyers Sisters Pioneers in Black Musical Comedy) We have tentatively dated this playbill to 1889 when the Hyers Sisters would have been on the same bill with The Jubilee Singers. This "double company" was truly enormous and included the Hyers Sisters own musical quartette as well as musicians, added to the already large Peck & Fursman company.