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Masquerade in black / by William Torbert Leonard.
- Text
- Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1986.
- 1986
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWET 87-1405 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 87-306 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Singing the master : the emergence of African American culture in the plantation south / Roger D. Abrahams.
- Text
- New York : Pantheon Books, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Available Online
http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780394555911.pdfItem details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 92-514 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Lion comedies motion picture stills collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1900?-1929?>
- 1900-1929
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Motion pictures Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Swanee river motion picture stills collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <1940.>
- 1940
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Motion pictures Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
One exciting night motion picture stills collection [graphic].
- Still image
- <photographed 1922, printed later.>
- 1922
"Gentlemen, be seated!" : A parade of the old-time minstrels / by Dailey Paskman and Sigmund Spaeth ; with a foreword by Daniel Frohman ; profusely illustrated from old prints and photographs and with complete music for voice and piano.
- Text
- Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran, 1928.
- 1928
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFW (Paskman, Dailey) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 791.1-P (Paskman, D. Gentlemen, be seated!) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Minstrel memories : the story of burnt cork minstrelsy in Great Britain from 1836 to 1927 / by Harry Reynolds.
- Text
- London : A. Rivers, [1928]
- 1928
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFW (Reynolds. Minstrel memories) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 791.1-R (Reynolds, H. Minstrel memories) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / Eric Lott.
- Text
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNE 93-79 Offsite Wilhelmina F. Adams photograph collection [graphic].
- Still image
- 1900-1987.
- 1900-1987
- 2 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/cf969260-c608-012f-dd5a-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Wilhelmina F. Adams Collection box 1 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Wilhelmina F. Adams Collection box 2 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
George Primrose / photograph, no credit given.
- Still image
- [between 1893 and 1910]
- 1893-1910
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-9f93-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Blackface, white noise : Jewish immigrants in the Hollywood melting pot / Michael Rogin.
- Text
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.
- 1996
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MFL 96-10683 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 96-403 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Reviews.
- Text
- 1996
The evolution of the images of African-American characters in the American commercial musical / by Warren B. Burdine.
- Text
- 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-218 v. 1-2 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Demons of disorder : early blackface minstrels and their world / Dale Cockrell.
- Text
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- 1997
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 97-579 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-1610 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Darktown strutters : a novel / by Wesley Brown.
- Text
- New York, N.Y. : Cane Hill Press, c1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 97-2114 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Raising Cain : blackface performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop / W.T. Lhamon, Jr.
- Text
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
- 1998
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 98-360 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 98-342 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Catalogue of white face colored minstrel and colored musical comedy. No. 2, Cards, hangers and posters in stock at St. Louis office of the National Printing & Engraving Company.
- Text
- New York : National Printing & Engraving Company, [1912?]
- 1912
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare D 99-7 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Eve cost Adam just one bone / [words and music] by Charles Bayha.
- Notated music
- New York : Skidmore, c1921.
- 1921
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-c2c7-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music M.C. (Broadway brevities, 1920. Eve cost Adam) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
I love her-she loves me / words by Irving Caesar & Eddie Cantor ; music by Irving Caesar.
- Notated music
- New York : Harms, c1922.
- 1922
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/70cc616d-4c63-e208-e040-e00a18066712Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music M.C. (Make it snappy, 1922. I love her-she loves me) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Bonnie Clark collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [191-?]-1959.
- 195-1959
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/6d3affb0-c616-012f-7665-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Bonnie Clark Collection Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Whirl of society keysheets.
- Still image
- New York, 1912.
- 1912
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/7c22cac0-c5b8-012f-4613-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=1:f953e580-c5b9-012f-8340-58d385a7bc34/183:aef09da0-c5ba-012f-2990-58d385a7bc34Dis-integrating the musical : African American musical performance and the American musical film, 1927-1959 / by Arthur L. Knight III.
- Text
- 1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMD 00-258 Offsite The moon shines on the moonshine / lyric by Francis De Witt ; music by Robert Hood Bowers.
- Notated music
- New York : Shapiro, Bernstein, 1920.
- 1920
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4f6c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music M.C. (Ziegfeld follies, 1920. Moon shines on the moonshine) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
O-hi-o : o-my!-o! / words by Jack Yellen ; music by Abe Olman.
- Notated music
- Chicago : Forster Music Pub., c1920.
- 1920
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-4fe3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music M.C. (Midnight rounders, 1920. O-hi-o) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Good-bye boys / words by Andrew B. Sterling and William Jerome ; music by Harry Von Tilzer.
- Notated music
- New York : H. Von Tilzer, c1913.
- 1913
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8e1ec306-72aa-facb-e040-e00a180678aeItem details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music M.C. (Honeymoon express, 1913. Good-bye boys) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
I makes mine myself / lyric by Francis De Witt ; music by Robert Hood Bowers.
- Notated music
- New York : Shapiro, Bernstein, c1921
- 1921
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-c2cb-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music M.C. (Broadway brevities, 1920. I makes mine myself) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
I want to know where Tosti went : (when he said "good-bye") / [words and music] by Chris. Smith.
- Notated music
- New York : Shapiro, Bernstein, c1920.
- 1920
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-c2d1-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music M.C. (Broadway brevities, 1920. I want to know) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Little rover : (don't forget to come back home) / lyric by Gus Kahn ; music by Walter Donaldson.
- Notated music
- New York : Shapiro, Bernstein, c1923.
- 1923
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-c334-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music M.C. (Make it snappy, 1922. Little rover) Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
All coons look alike to me / words and music by Ernest Hogan.
- Notated music
- New York : M. Witmark, c1896.
- 1896
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7ffc6b33-b378-797a-e040-e00a18062dd0Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music Music (Sheet) 99-303 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Hello Broadway keysheets.
- Still image
- New York, 1914.
- 1914
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/7c22cac0-c5b8-012f-4613-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=1:f953e580-c5b9-012f-8340-58d385a7bc34/59:3374d970-c5ba-012f-4cc0-58d385a7bc34Snap your fingers and away you go / words by William Jerome ; music by Harry Von Tilzer.
- Notated music
- New York : H. Von Tilzer, c1912.
- 1912
- 1 Item
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-cacb-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music Music (Sheet) 00-349 Performing Arts Research Collections - Music Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Vaudeville [videorecording] / Producer, Rosemary Garner ; A Production of Thirteen/WNET, KCTS/9 Television, and Palmer/Fenster ; conceived and written by Greg Palmer.
- Moving image
- c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOX 1614 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Daniel Decatur Emmett [microform] : author of "Dixie" / by Charles Burleigh Galbreath ; illustrated.
- Text
- Columbus, Ohio : Press of Fred. J. Heer, 1904.
- 1904
Negro Actors Guild of America photograph collection [graphic].
- Still image
- [190-]-[198-]
- 198-198
- 16 Items
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/c23abae0-c618-012f-1180-58d385a7bc34Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Negro Actors Guild of America Collection Box 14 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Negro Actors Guild of America Collection Box 15 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Still image Sc Photo Negro Actors Guild of America Collection Box 16 Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection : personal collections [graphic].
- Still image
- [189-?]-[199-]
- 199-199
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/93b16510-c634-012f-3fb3-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=3:b2962510-c634-012f-2598-58d385a7bc34Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection : personalities [graphic].
- Still image
- [189-?]-[199-]
- 199-199
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/93b16510-c634-012f-3fb3-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=1:9402c5e0-c634-012f-7403-58d385a7bc34Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection : main record [graphic].
- Still image
- [189-?]-[199-]
- 199-199
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/93b16510-c634-012f-3fb3-58d385a7bc34Sinbad keysheets.
- Still image
- New York, 1918.
- 1918
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/7c22cac0-c5b8-012f-4613-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=1:f953e580-c5b9-012f-8340-58d385a7bc34/154:928b48a0-c5ba-012f-2b97-58d385a7bc34Watch your step keysheets.
- Still image
- New York, 1914.
- 1914
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/7c22cac0-c5b8-012f-4613-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=1:f953e580-c5b9-012f-8340-58d385a7bc34/177:a93ca530-c5ba-012f-1808-58d385a7bc34Darktown strutters : a novel / Wesley Brown ; afterword by W. T. Lhamon Jr.
- Text
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts, [2000]
- 2000-1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 03-2979 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bamboozled [videorecording] / New Line Cinema presents a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; written and directed by Spike Lee ; produced by Jon Kilik and Spike Lee.
- Moving image
- U.S. : New Line Home Entertainment, c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *MGZIDVD 5-3 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Men in blackface : true stories of the Minstrel show / Seymour Stark.
- Text
- [Philadelphia? : Xlibris Corp.?], c2000.
- 2000
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFB 03-36 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 04-1216 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Jolson & Company : the new musical [videorecording] / Ric Wanetik and Crimson Productions present ; [written] by Stephen Mo Hanan & Jay Berkow ; direction and musical staging by Jay Berkow ; [video prod. company] Parker/Hodges Productions ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
- Moving image
- New York, c2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image NCOV 2664 Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Jump Jim Crow : lost plays, lyrics, and street prose of the first Atlantic popular culture / W.T. Lhamon, Jr.
- Text
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 03-1355 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
"The real character of the Negro on the stage" : African American theatre as risk and possibility, 1890-1908 / by Barbara L. Webb.
- Text
- 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 04-3267 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Female impersonation in nineteenth-century American blackface minstrelsy / by Annemarie Bean.
- Text
- c2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc D 04-3306 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Helen Armstead-Johnson photograph collection : production stills [graphic].
- Still image
- [189-?]-[199-]
- 199-199
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/93b16510-c634-012f-3fb3-58d385a7bc34#/?tab=navigation&roots=2:9fd27af0-c634-012f-d28f-58d385a7bc34Performing blackness on English stages, 1500-1800 / Virginia Mason Vaughan.
- Text
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 05-1006 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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