Banjo Collection

: 8th Season Boston Museum. No. 367 ... Lots of fun! Change of programme every night! Last week of the performances of Horn, Wells, and Briggs' popular and talented troupe of Ethiopian Serenaders! Who will introduce on Thursday evening, July 31, 1851, and e; Broadside advertising performances by Horn, Wells and Briggs' Ethiopian Serenaders at the Boston Museum on Thursday, July 31, 1851, and through the week. Performance include "Black Shakers," "Dutch Drill," and "Old Tar River.";

: 8th Season Boston Museum. No. 370 ... Positively the last performances of Horn, Wells, and Briggs' Ethiopian serenaders! This Saturday afternoon & evening commencing at 3 & 8 o'clock, p. m.; Broadside advertising performances by Horn, Wells and Briggs' Ethiopian Serenaders at the Boston Museum on Saturday, August 2, 1851.; Date is incribed in pencil on the front of the broadside.

: Arch St. Theatre : Positively the last week Monday evening, June 13, 1859 ... Morris Bro's Pell & Trowbridge's minstrels and cow-bell-o-gians!!; Broadside advertising stage performances by the Morris Brothers, Pell & Trowbridge's Minstrels in Philadelphia on June 13, 1859.; Charles Morris information derived from a New York Times obituary from April 20, 1922. [https://www.nytimes.com/1922/04/20/archives/charles-a-morris-veteran-minstrel.html];

: Banjo made easy : a quick road to proficiency : a simplified, practical and thorough guide

: Banjo, and how to play it : containing, in addition to the elementary study, a choice collection of polkas, waltzes, solos, schottisches, songs, reels, hornpipes, jigs, etc., with full explanations of both the "banjo" and "guitar" styles of execution, and

: Benefit of Frank Brower opera night : thirteenth and last night but two, of Ordway's Æolians!; Title from content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: Wheatley's Arch St. Theatre Wednesday evening, July 21st.; Broadside advertising performance by Ordway's Ãƒâ€ olians in Philadelphia at Wheatley's Arch St. Theater on Wedenesday, July 21st 1858. Acts include various musical performances and a stage performance entitles "Oh! Hush!";

: Birch, Wambold, Bernard & Backus, San Francisco Minstrels : Thursday evening, Jan. 25, 1866.; Title from content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: San Francisco Minstrels 585 Broadway, opposite Metropolitan Hotel. Nulli secundus! Thirty-eighth week. Houses crowded to repletion.; Broadside advertising musical and stage performances by the Birch, Wambold, Bernard & Backus San Francisco Minstrels in New York on January 25, 1866.;

: Boston Museum ... Friday evening, July 11, [1856] : unprecedented attraction for the benefit of S.S. Sanford! Manager of the Sanford Opera Troupe.; Broadside advertising stage performances of music and dance ensembles and a performance of the 5th act of William Shakespeare's "Richard III" by Sandford's Opera Troupe in Boston on Friday, July 11, 1856.;

: Boz's Juba, with C. W. Pell's Ethiopian Serenaders, from the Royal Gardens, Vauxhall, will give a morning concert at the theatre, this day, Saturday, October 7, commencing at two o'clock.; Title from content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: Theatre-Royal, Bath.; Broadside for a performance by Boz's Juba (William Henry Lane) and G.W. Pell's Ethiopian Serenaders at the Theatre-Royal in Bath, England.; The date of 1848 is handwritten on the broadside.

: Bryant's Minstrels : benefit of Dan Bryant & Eph Horn!; Titlefrom content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: Boston Museum! Acting and Stage manager Mr. E. F. Keach.; Broadside advertising musical ensemble performances by Bryant's Minstrels at Boston Museum on Friday, August 2,1861.; Evan Evans Hern (1823-1877) performed under the stage name "Eph Horn" -- Burnt Cork and Tambourines: A Source Book for Negro Minstrelsy, by William ... [description clipped]

: Buckley's banjo guide : containing the elementary principles of music, together with new, easy, and progressive exercises, and a great variety of song

: Burbeck & Browne's Minstrels will give an entertainment at [blank] hall, on [blank] evening.; Broadside advertising musical and ensemble performances by Burbeck & Browne's Minstrels. Not date or location is specified.;

: Charley White's complimentary benefit! : and last night of the troupe in Brooklyn, Friday evening Jan. 8th.; Title from content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: Musical Hall, Brooklyn corner of Fulton and Orange sts., late Brooklyn Museum; Broadside advertising performances by Charley White, Sile Weed, Frank Wells (Bernard Mundy), and Master Tucker along with Charley White's Opera Troupe at Musical Hall, in Brooklyn on Friday, January 8th, 1857.;

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