Title from content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: Boston Museum ;admission 25 cents. Children under 12 years of age, half price.; Broadside advertising musical ensemble performances by Murphy, West and Peel's Original Campbell Minstrels in Boston on Thursday, July 14th, 1853.;
Title from content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: Boston Museum ;admission 25 cents. Children under 12 years of age, half price.; Broadside advertising musical ensemble performances by Murphy, West and Peel's Original Campbell Minstrels in Boston on Wednesday, July 6th, 1853.;
Broadside advertising a performance of The Sable Brothers in San Juan, with blanks for place and date of performance. Includes set list for programme.; "This Company consists of the following well-known performers: Mr. C. Morrell, banjoist and accordeonist [i.e. accordionist];Mr. J. Wallace, the unrivalled [sic] banjoist and Negro delineator;Mr. G. Bishop, the nonpareil character dancer and bone player;Mr. J.L. Bernard, the tambroinist [i.e. tambourinist] and delineator;Mr. J. Neale, the favorite ballad singer."; Rare Books Banjo copy has handwritten notation of place and date of performance: San Juan, 1858.
Titlefrom content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: Boston Museum! Acting and Stage manager Mr. E. F. Keach. The cry is still they come. Crowded houses! Decided hit! Another change of programme.; Broadside advertising musical ensemble performances by Bryant's Minstrels at Boston Museum on Saturday, July 27th, 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 Slout;
Title from content of broadside after header information.; At head of title: Music Hall! Four nights only! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday even'gs, September 19th, 20th, 21st and 22d, 1864...; Broadside advertising stage performances of Christy's Minstrels and George Christy at the Music Hall in New Haven, Connecticut on September 19, 20, 21 and 22. 1864.;
Broadside advertising performances by Sam Sharpley's Minstrels, also known as the Iron Clads, at the Music Hall in Hartford Connecticut on November 26 and 28, 1864.;
Title from content of broadside after header information; At head of title: Morris Place Hall.; Broadside advertising ensemble performances of the Sable Harmonists at the Morris Place Hall in Troy, N.Y. on December 14 and 15, 1849.;
Includes six photos, numbered by hand, mounted on inside front wrapper.
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A probably unique typed and manuscript manual, illustrated with six mounted photos of Thompson playing the banjo, with close up hand position details. All of the music is notated in meticulous manuscript, with red ink highlights and notations. We have dated the manual by the fact that S. A. Thompson's Mandolin Orchestra is pictured in a Gibson instrument catalogue of 1917.