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  • Dockstader's Modern Minstrels : our annual tour, New York : sable entertainers from their B'dway theatre.

    • Text
    • [S.I. : s.n., 190-?]
    • 1900-1910
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare C 84-25Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Negro minstrels; a complete guide.

    • Text
    • Upper Saddle River, N.J., Literature House [1969, c1902]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 72-795Offsite
  • Bryant's Power of music; being a collection of all the latest and best sentimental and Negro songs, etc., as sung by the inimitable Bryant's Minstrels.

    • Notated music
    • New York, R. M. DeWitt [1859]
    • 1859
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JOB 72-4Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Music of the old South; colony to confederacy.

    • Text
    • Rutherford, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 780.975-S (Stoutamire, A. Music of the old South)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Lawell and Drews Sassy Nigger songster. Containing a choice lot of the real, original darkey songs and sketches, as sung ... by ... Lawell and Drews.

    • Text
    • New York, De Witt, c1880.
    • 1880
  • Bryant's songs from Dixie's land, containing all the new, laughable, humorous, comic and fashionable songs and melodies of that popular band of Ethiopian performers, the Bryant brothers.

    • Text
    • New York, R. M. De Witt [c1861]
    • 1861
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JOB 73-33Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Ned Turner's new songster and olio of oddities. Containing all the most popular and priginal songs, stump speeches, witticisms, jokes, conundrums, &c., &c. Arranged and compiled by G. E. G.

    • Text
    • New York, R. M. De Witt, c1872.
    • 1872
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JOB 73-28Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The Great Maccabe songster. Containing the first lot of real new ballads and songs of genuine merit that has ever been printed.

    • Text
    • New York, R. M. De Witt, c1874.
    • 1874
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JOB 73-15Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Harry Woodson's Good bye, Lize, songster. Containing an entire collection of the very best Negro songs, sketches and sayings of the above great Negro delineator, together with a collection of the latest and best compositions of the day.

    • Text
    • New York, Popular Publishing Co. [1879]
    • 1879
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JOB 73-20Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Vagabond adventures.

    • Text
    • Boston, Fields, Osgood, 1870.
    • 1870
    • 2 Items

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    Text Sc B-Keeler (Keeler, R. Vagabond adventures)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text AN (Keeler) (Keeler, R. Vagabond adventures. 1870)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The black crook burlesque. Written and arranged by G. W. H. Griffin and performed by Griffin & Christy's Minstrels for a succession of ninety nights, at the Fifth Avenue Opera House.

    • Text
    • London, New York, S. French [188-?]
    • 1880-1889
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MGTZ (The black crook burlesque) 76-3108Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Men about town minstrels; a collection of new first-parts, skits, sketches, monologues, jokes, etc.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : D. Mckay, [c1938]
    • 1938
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 77-157Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Favorite darkey songs. Compiled and sung by Harvey Hindermeyer & Earle Tuckerman ("The Gold Dust Twins")

    • Text
    • Boston, O. Ditson, c1927.
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNG 76-436Offsite
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  • Christy's new songster and black joker : containing all the most popular and original songs, choruses, stump speeches, witticisms, jokes, conundrums, etc., etc., as sung and delivered by the world-renowned Christy's Minstrels at their opera houses / compiled and arranged by E. Byron Christy and William E. Christy, successors to the late Edwin P. Christy.

    • Text
    • New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1863]
    • 1868
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare B 77-1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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    Text Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. (Christy and Christy. Christy's new songster and black joker)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • The original Christy's minstrels. Complete repertoire of plantation melodies, from which the programme of each evening is selected.

    • Text
    • London, To be had at W. B. Ford's [186-?]
    • 1860-1869
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JND 76-16Offsite
  • Blackface and music; the spirit of minstrelsy. A new minstrel book, complete with songs, words and music, and a full show, ready for performance.

    • Notated music
    • New York, E. B. Marks Music Corp., c1936.
    • 1936
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNG 76-367Offsite
  • De Trouble begins at nine; act for "Bones" and banjoist (as played at the American Theatre, N. Y., 1866)

    • Text
    • [London, New York, S. French, 187- ?]
    • 1870-1879
  • The James A. Bland album of outstanding songs : a collection for voice and piano / compiled, edited and arranged by Charles Haywood.

    • Text
    • New York : E. B. Marks, 1946.
    • 1946
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc G 78-10Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The ticket taker; or, The masquerade ball. A popular Ethiopian farce as performed by Griffin & Christy's minstrels, New York. Arranged by G. W. H. Griffin.

    • Text
    • London, New York, French [18--]
    • 1800-1899
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *XMT-227Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Dar's de money. Othello burlesque (Ethiopian)

    • Text
    • London, New York, French [18--]
    • 1800-1899
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *XMT-228Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Songs and programme for this evening.

    • Text
    • New York.
    • 2 Items
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    Text JMK 78-10 v. 7, no. 2-52 (1864) (Incomplete)Offsite
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    Text JMK 78-10 v. 8, no. 2-25 (1865-66) (Incomplete)Offsite
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  • "Gentlemen, be seated!" : A parade of the American minstrels / by Dailey Paskman. Rev. ed.

    • Text
    • New York : C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 3 Items
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    Text Sc F 07-37Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text MWFW 83-338Offsite
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    Text JNF 78-108Offsite
  • This grotesque essence : plays from the American minstrel stage / [edited by] Gary D. Engle.

    • Text
    • Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 78-296Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Gala concert of the Mattabassett Ethiopian Melodists [Sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [1978]
    • 1978
  • Africanus Bluebeard; a musical Ethiopian burlesque. Music arranged for the pianoforte by Alfred B. Sedgwick.

    • Text
    • New York, De Witt Pub. House, c1876.
    • 1876
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JNC 78-5Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Carry me back to old Virginny [sound recording] / James Bland.

    • Audio
    • New York: Decca 1245B 62116, [194-?]
    • 1940-1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio Sc Audio CM-49 [Side 2, no. 8] Re-recorded in cassette (counter 51) 2 track. monoSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Cotton town minstrel first-part: a complete routine for the circle / by Bob Royce.

    • Text
    • Chicago : T. S. Denison, 1934.
    • 1934
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro F-1847Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Up-to-date minstrel jokes : a collection of the latest and most popular jokes ... also a special department of female minstrel jokes / collected and arranged by H. H. Wheeler.

    • Text
    • Boston : W. H. Baker, [19- ].
    • 1900-1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 80-88Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Coon Valley minstrel : First-part : a complete routine for the circle / by Jeff Gannett.

    • Text
    • Chicago : T. S. Denison, 1935.
    • 1935
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro F-4062Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Old Slack's reminiscence and pocket history of the colored profession from 1865 to 1891 / by Ike Simond.

    • Text
    • Bowling Green, Ohio : Popular Press, c1974.
    • 1974-1891
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 81-50Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Echoes of the past : opening minstrel medley.

    • Notated music
    • Chicago : W. Rossiter, c1904.
    • 1904
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Music-Am. (Sheet) 80-318Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Axin' her father : a Negro farce in one act / by O. E. Young.

    • Text
    • Chicago : T. S. Denison, 1901.
    • 1901
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro F-9087Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Stick to your word, gal : a Negro farce in one act / by O. E. Young.

    • Text
    • Chicago : T. S. Denison, 1901.
    • 1901
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro F-9086Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Hamlet the dainty : an Ethiopian burlesque on Shakespeare's Hamlet : performed by Griffin & Christy's Minstrels / by G. W. H. Griffin.

    • Text
    • New York : Happy Hours Co., [188-?]
    • 1880-1889
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro F-9181Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The black chap from Whitechapel: an eccentric Negro piece .../ by Henry L. Williams.

    • Text
    • New York: R. M. De Witt, 1871.
    • 1871
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro F-9340Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Ethiopian flute instructor; containing full and complete instructions, with all the popular Negro melodies of the day, including those of the Christy Minstrels, by Gumbo Chaff.

    • Text
    • Boston, O. Ditson, c1850.
    • 1850
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JME 77-225Offsite
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  • Curiosities of the American stage [microform] by Laurence Hutton.

    • Text
    • New York, Harper, 1891.
    • 1891
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-3962Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text MWED (Hutton, L. Curiosities of the American stage. New York)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Bones, his gags and stump speeches : Nigger and Dutch stories and dialogues..."Broken China" dialect pieces, and other conundrums.

    • Text
    • New York : Wehman Brothers, 1879.
    • 1879
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWFW [RBS] 97-833 THE INEZ BARBOUR HADLEY FUND FOR THE HENRY HADLEY MEMORIAL LIBRARYPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Pantomime and minstrel scenes : a picture carnival for the young.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : G. Routledge & Songs, c1883.
    • 1883
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare+ G 83-8Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Tip Top entertainment and minstrel album / compiled and edited by Joe Davis.

    • Notated music
    • N[ew] Y[ork] : Tip Top Pub., c1936.
    • 1936
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNF 84-52Offsite
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  • Olympia Quartette songster : containing a complete collection of all the songs sung by the above-named, world-wide quartette throughout their tour through the United States : together with many other popular and original songs never before published ...

    • Text
    • New York : New York Popular Publishing Co., [188-?]
    • 1880-1889
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JPB 77-29Offsite

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  • Sam Sharpley's Iron-clad songster : containing a collection of the most popular comic, Ethiopian, sentimental, and eccentric songs : as sung throughout the United States by Sam Sharpley and his celebrated company of iron-clad minstrels.

    • Text
    • New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, c1864.
    • 1864
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JPB 77-30Offsite

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  • Minstrel-show songs / Stephen Foster ; new introduction by H. Wiley Hitchcock.

    • Notated music
    • New York : Da Capo Press, 1980.
    • 1980-1848
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JNN 76-3 no. 14Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • De Vere's negro sketches : end-men's gags and conundrums, adapted to the use of amateurs or professionals / by William De Vere...

    • Text
    • Chicago : The Charles T. Powner Company, 1946.
    • 1946
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 86-214Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Masquerade in black / by William Torbert Leonard.

    • Text
    • Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1986.
    • 1986
    • 2 Items
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    Text Sc D 87-306Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Text MWET 87-1405Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Unsworth's burnt cork lyrics : consisting of all his popular and original songs, etc. etc.; embracing, also, the latest novelties in Ethiopian delineation / edited and compiled by J.H. Collins.

    • Text
    • New York : R. M. De Witt Publishers, [1859?]
    • 1859
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare C 89-47Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • The Boys of New York : end men's joke book, containing a great variety of the latest jokes used by the most famous end men.

    • Text
    • New York: ¬bF. Tousey, [1902?]
    • 1902
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare C 89-49Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • From minstrel show to vaudeville : the Australian popular stage, 1788-1914 / Richard Waterhouse.

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    • Kensington, NSW, Australia : New South Wales University Press ; Portland, Or., U.S.A. : Available in North America through International Specialized Book Services, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MWEL (Australia) 91-3448Offsite
  • Christy's bones and banjo melodist : being a collection of the most popular, fashionable, patriotic, Ethiopian comic and humorous songs, speeches, etc. / as sung and delivered by the world renowned Christy's ministrels at their popular entertainments throughout the United States.

    • Text
    • New York : Dick & Fitzgerald [c18--?]
    • 18
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare C 91-4Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Village festival and Old folk's quadrilles ; Minstrel songs [sound recording] / Stephen Foster.

    • Audio
    • [New York] : American Recording Society, [1953]
    • 1953
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 2518Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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