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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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare C 84-25 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Negro minstrels; a complete guide.
- Text
- Upper Saddle River, N.J., Literature House [1969, c1902]
- 1969
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 72-795 Offsite 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JOB 72-4 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.
Music of the old South; colony to confederacy.
- Text
- Rutherford, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press [1972]
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 780.975-S (Stoutamire, A. Music of the old South) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JOB 73-33 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.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JOB 73-28 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.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JOB 73-15 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.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JOB 73-20 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.
Vagabond adventures.
- Text
- Boston, Fields, Osgood, 1870.
- 1870
- 2 Items
Available Online
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc B-Keeler (Keeler, R. Vagabond adventures) 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 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *MGTZ (The black crook burlesque) 76-3108 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 about town minstrels; a collection of new first-parts, skits, sketches, monologues, jokes, etc.
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- Philadelphia : D. Mckay, [c1938]
- 1938
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 77-157 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Favorite darkey songs. Compiled and sung by Harvey Hindermeyer & Earle Tuckerman ("The Gold Dust Twins")
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- Boston, O. Ditson, c1927.
- 1927
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNG 76-436 Offsite Not available - In use until 2024-04-25 - Please for assistance.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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. (Christy and Christy. Christy's new songster and black joker) 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.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare B 77-1 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JND 76-16 Offsite 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JNG 76-367 Offsite 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc G 78-10 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 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.
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- London, New York, French [18--]
- 1800-1899
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *XMT-227 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.
Dar's de money. Othello burlesque (Ethiopian)
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- London, New York, French [18--]
- 1800-1899
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *XMT-228 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.
Songs and programme for this evening.
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- New York.
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMK 78-10 v. 7, no. 2-52 (1864) (Incomplete) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JMK 78-10 v. 8, no. 2-25 (1865-66) (Incomplete) Offsite Not available - Please for assistance."Gentlemen, be seated!" : A parade of the American minstrels / by Dailey Paskman. Rev. ed.
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- New York : C. N. Potter : distributed by Crown, c1976.
- 1976
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNF 78-108 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFW 83-338 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc F 07-37 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
This grotesque essence : plays from the American minstrel stage / [edited by] Gary D. Engle.
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- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1978.
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc E 78-296 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Africanus Bluebeard; a musical Ethiopian burlesque. Music arranged for the pianoforte by Alfred B. Sedgwick.
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- New York, De Witt Pub. House, c1876.
- 1876
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JNC 78-5 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.
Carry me back to old Virginny [sound recording] / James Bland.
- Audio
- New York: Decca 1245B 62116, [194-?]
- 1940-1949
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio Sc Audio CM-49 [Side 2, no. 8] Re-recorded in cassette (counter 51) 2 track. mono Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Cotton town minstrel first-part: a complete routine for the circle / by Bob Royce.
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- Chicago : T. S. Denison, 1934.
- 1934
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-1847 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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.
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- Boston : W. H. Baker, [19- ].
- 1900-1981
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 80-88 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Coon Valley minstrel : First-part : a complete routine for the circle / by Jeff Gannett.
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- Chicago : T. S. Denison, 1935.
- 1935
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-4062 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Old Slack's reminiscence and pocket history of the colored profession from 1865 to 1891 / by Ike Simond.
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- Bowling Green, Ohio : Popular Press, c1974.
- 1974-1891
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 81-50 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Echoes of the past : opening minstrel medley.
- Notated music
- Chicago : W. Rossiter, c1904.
- 1904
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music Music-Am. (Sheet) 80-318 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.
Axin' her father : a Negro farce in one act / by O. E. Young.
- Text
- Chicago : T. S. Denison, 1901.
- 1901
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-9087 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Stick to your word, gal : a Negro farce in one act / by O. E. Young.
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- Chicago : T. S. Denison, 1901.
- 1901
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-9086 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Hamlet the dainty : an Ethiopian burlesque on Shakespeare's Hamlet : performed by Griffin & Christy's Minstrels / by G. W. H. Griffin.
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- New York : Happy Hours Co., [188-?]
- 1880-1889
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-9181 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 black chap from Whitechapel: an eccentric Negro piece .../ by Henry L. Williams.
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- New York: R. M. De Witt, 1871.
- 1871
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Micro F-9340 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 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.
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- Boston, O. Ditson, c1850.
- 1850
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JME 77-225 Offsite Not available - Please for assistance.Curiosities of the American stage [microform] by Laurence Hutton.
- Text
- New York, Harper, 1891.
- 1891
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWED (Hutton, L. Curiosities of the American stage. New York) 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 Micro R-3962 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bones, his gags and stump speeches : Nigger and Dutch stories and dialogues..."Broken China" dialect pieces, and other conundrums.
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- New York : Wehman Brothers, 1879.
- 1879
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWFW [RBS] 97-833 THE INEZ BARBOUR HADLEY FUND FOR THE HENRY HADLEY MEMORIAL LIBRARY 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.
Pantomime and minstrel scenes : a picture carnival for the young.
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- London ; New York : G. Routledge & Songs, c1883.
- 1883
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare+ G 83-8 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JNF 84-52 Offsite Not available - In use until 2024-04-25 - Please for assistance.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 ...
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- New York : New York Popular Publishing Co., [188-?]
- 1880-1889
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JPB 77-29 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JPB 77-30 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Minstrel-show songs / Stephen Foster ; new introduction by H. Wiley Hitchcock.
- Notated music
- New York : Da Capo Press, 1980.
- 1980-1848
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Notated music JNN 76-3 no. 14 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.
De Vere's negro sketches : end-men's gags and conundrums, adapted to the use of amateurs or professionals / by William De Vere...
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- Chicago : The Charles T. Powner Company, 1946.
- 1946
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc C 86-214 Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Masquerade in black / by William Torbert Leonard.
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- 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.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare C 89-47 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare C 89-49 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWEL (Australia) 91-3448 Offsite 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
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc Rare C 91-4 Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Village festival and Old folk's quadrilles ; Minstrel songs [sound recording] / Stephen Foster.
- Audio
- [New York] : American Recording Society, [1953]
- 1953
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 2518 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
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