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Title: 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 every evening during the week, at 8 o'clock, and Wednesday & Saturday afternoons at 3 o'clock, a selection of their most favorite pieces
Publisher: Hooton's Press--No. 10 Haskins' Buildings corner of Howard and Tremont Streets.
Place Published: Boston
Date: 1851
Type: Broadside/broadsheet
Pages: 1 image
Subjects: Minstrel shows., Blackface entertainers., Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century., Theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Note: 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.";
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-bro-min-027

Title: 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
Publisher: Hooton's Press--No. 10 Haskins' Buildings corner of Howard and Tremont Streets.
Place Published: Boston
Date: 1851
Type: Broadside/broadsheet
Pages: 1 image
Subjects: Minstrel shows., Blackface entertainers., Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century., Theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Note: 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.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-bro-min-023

Title: American Conservatory banjo method
Names: Partee, Clarence L. (Clarence Lockhart), 1864-1915
Publisher: C.L. Partee Music
Place Published: Kansas City, Mo.
Date: 1895
Type: Scores
Pages: 54 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Studies and exercises, Banjo -- Instruction and study, Banjo -- Methods, Banjo music
Note: Includes elementary instruction, exercises, and pieces for one or two banjos; Rare books copy missing p. 11-12.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-clp-conservatory
Use/Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

Title: Arch St. Theatre : Positively the last week Monday evening, June 13, 1859 ... Morris Bro's Pell & Trowbridge's minstrels and cow-bell-o-gians!!
Names: Morris, Lon, 1830-1882, Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Publisher: U. S. Books and Job Printing Office Ledger Buildings
Place Published: Philadelphia
Date: 1859
Type: Broadside/broadsheet
Pages: 1 image
Subjects: Minstrel shows., Blackface entertainers., Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century., Theater -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Note: 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];
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-bro-min-021

Title: Banjo : a dissertation
Names: Stewart, S. S. (S. Swaim), b. 1855
Publisher: S.S. Stewart
Place Published: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1894
Type: Books
Pages: 142 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo
Abstract: Includes appendix to third edition (pp.108-131); Includes portrait of S.S. Stewart
Note: Third edition. The textual errors of the first edition are here corrected, and only the portrait of Stewart is retained.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-sss-diss3
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Title: Banjo companion
Publisher: White, Smith & Co., W.H. Boner & Co.
Place Published: Boston (Mass.), Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1885
Type: Scores
Pages: 76 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo music
Abstract: In addition to solo banjo music, also includes music for banjo duets, trios and quartets.
Note: With attractive decorated cover, printed in red and black, with litho portrait of woman playing banjo.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-b-companion
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Title: Banjo made easy : a quick road to proficiency : a simplified, practical and thorough guide
Names: Converse, F. B. (Frank B.), 1837-1903
Publisher: Hamilton S. Gordon
Place Published: New York (N.Y.)
Date: 1893
Type: Books
Pages: 104 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Methods -- Self-instruction, Banjo -- Instruction and study, Banjo -- Studies and exercises, Banjo music
Note: A handsome copy of Converse's final tutor, with the ownership signature "S[ister]r. Beatrice, OSB, 1893." Includes a generous selection of music; the final ads are for Converse's line of banjos, and include full page diagrams of his improvements in neck mounting and tail piece.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-fbc-easy
Use/Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

Title: Banjo! : a dissertation
Names: Stewart, S. S. (S. Swaim), 1855-
Publisher: S.S. Stewart
Place Published: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1888
Type: Books
Pages: 135 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo
Note: First edition. A major treatise by a leading manufacturer, marking the evolution of the instrument from minstrel stage to concert hall. This is an early issue with uncorrected textual errors e.g. "seemad" for "seemed" on p. 30, line 12, "audiance" for "audience", p. 14, line 12 from bottom, and "affect" for "effect" on p. 64, line 5 from bottom. Most notably, subsequent editions did not include the nine portraits of professional players, but only the portrait of Stewart.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-sss-diss1
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Title: Banjo! : a dissertation
Names: Stewart, S. S. (S. Swaim), 1855-
Publisher: S.S. Stewart
Place Published: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date: 1888
Type: Books
Pages: 123 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo
Note: Second edition; stamped "Complimentary Copy" on ffep [front free end paper], and with the pencilled block letters, "Danville School of Music. H. Q. Porter, Violin; H. A. Prior, piano; Park Hunter, Banjo," on the verso of the portrait. As noted, the textual errors are here corrected, and only the portrait of Stewart is retained.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-sss-diss2
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Title: 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 designed to impart a complete knowledge of the art of playing the banjo practically without the aid of a teacher
Names: Converse, F. B. (Frank B.), 1837-1903
Publisher: Dick & Fitzgerald
Place Published: New York (N.Y.)
Date: 1872
Type: Books
Pages: 124 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Methods -- Self-instruction, Banjo music, Banjo -- Studies and exercises
Abstract: Includes a selection of stage songs, jigs, polkas and waltzes; Music: p. 58-96.
Note: The follow up volume to Converse's Influential Banjo Without A Master, and the scarcer of the two.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-fbc-howto
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Title: Benefit of Frank Brower opera night : thirteenth and last night but two, of Ordway's Æolians!
Names: Ordway, John P. (John Pond), 1824-1880
Publisher: Brown's Steam-Power Book and Job Printing Office Ledger Buildings
Place Published: Phila.
Date: 1858
Type: Broadside/broadsheet
Pages: 1 image
Subjects: Minstrel shows., Blackface entertainers., Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century., Theater -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Note: 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!";
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-bro-min-024

Title: Birch, Wambold, Bernard & Backus, San Francisco Minstrels : Thursday evening, Jan. 25, 1866
Publisher: publisher not identified
Place Published: New York
Date: 1866
Type: Broadside/broadsheet
Pages: 1 image
Subjects: Minstrel shows., Blackface entertainers., Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century., Theater -- New York (State) -- New York.
Note: 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.;
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-bro-min-026

Title: Bonja song : a favorite Negro air for the piano-forte
Publisher: Printed by Broderip and Wilkinson
Place Published: London, England
Date: 1802
Type: Scores
Pages: 4 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Songs and music, Songs with piano -- Scores, African Americans -- Music
Abstract: For voice and pianoforte ; "Dedicated to Georgiana"--Caption; Engraved; Words for verses 2 and 3 printed as text on p.3; Composer unknown. Initials C.F.D.--p. 3.
Note: First edition of the first piece of published music related to the banjo, and a very early example of Negro dialect song. The full history of this intriguing piece remains to be written. It is dedicated to Georgiana, presumably Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who died in 1806. Two copies of the present edition are located on OCLC, at Brigham Young University, and University of Glasgow Library, which dates it to 1802. The lyrics, here signed "C.F.D." on p. 3, were published among the poems appended to Robert Charles Dallas' Adrastus, a Tragedy. Amabel or the Cornish Lovers; and other poems, London, 1823. They are attribed there to "Charlotte," with the following note: "The melody of this song, which was published some years ago, by Broderip and Wilkinson, is, with very little variation, such as was caught by ear from some of the negroes. The writer of the words took down the notes, and added the harmony." - p. 145. Dallas was born in Jamaica, a setting that adds credence to the anecdote on the song's origins. Early accounts of slave life there include descriptions of gourd ancestors of the banjo. As preserved in its present setting however, it must be said, the melody sounds more like something that could have been sung by Mozart's Papageno. At any rate, a rare and significant banjo incunabulum, in perfect condition.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-bonja-song
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Title: Boston Museum ... Friday evening, July 11, [1856] : unprecedented attraction for the benefit of S.S. Sanford! Manager of the Sanford Opera Troupe
Publisher: Hooton's Press--Haskins' Building no. 4 Howard Street.
Place Published: Boston
Date: 1856
Type: Broadside/broadsheet
Pages: 1 image
Subjects: Minstrel shows., Blackface entertainers., Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century., Theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Note: 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.;
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-bro-min-019

Title: 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
Publisher: John and James Keene printers
Place Published: Bath
Date: 1848
Type: Broadside/broadsheet
Pages: 1 image
Subjects: Minstrel shows., Blackface entertainers., Broadsides -- England -- 19th century., Theater -- England -- Bath.
Note: 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.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-bro-min-005

Title: Bryant's Minstrels : benefit of Dan Bryant & Eph Horn!
Names: Keach, E. F. (E. Frank), 1824-
Publisher: F. A. Searle Steam Job Printer Journal Building 118 Washington St. Boston
Place Published: Boston
Date: 1861
Type: Broadside/broadsheet
Pages: 1 image
Subjects: Minstrel shows., Blackface entertainers., Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century., Theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Note: 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 Slout;
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-bro-min-014

Title: Buckley's banjo guide : containing the elementary principles of music, together with new, easy, and progressive exercises, and a great variety of song
Names: Buckley, James, 1803-1872
Publisher: Oliver Ditson and Co. ; C.H. Ditson Co.
Place Published: Boston (Mass.)
Date: 1868
Type: Books
Pages: 80 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Instruction and study, Banjo -- Methods, Banjo -- Studies and exercises, Banjo music
Note: A scarce and important banjo tutor, by a well known performer. Many of the tunes are by the author, who led Buckley's Serenaders, a long popular minstrel troupe. This is probably a somewhat later printing, but still preserving the cover diagram of the fretless minstrel pitched instrument.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-jb-guide
Use/Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

Title: Burbeck & Browne's Minstrels will give an entertainment at [blank] hall, on [blank] evening
Names: Searle, Frederick A.
Publisher: F.A. Searle printer 118 Washington Street Boston.
Place Published: Boston
Date: 1860
Type: Broadside/broadsheet
Pages: 1 image
Subjects: Minstrel shows., Blackface entertainers., Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century., Theater -- Massachusetts -- Boston., Burlesque (Theater)
Note: Broadside advertising musical and ensemble performances by Burbeck & Browne's Minstrels. Not date or location is specified.;
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-bro-min-013

Title: Charley White's complimentary benefit! : and last night of the troupe in Brooklyn, Friday evening Jan. 8th
Publisher: Bacon & Dutton Printers and Engravers
Place Published: New York
Date: 1857
Type: Broadside/broadsheet
Pages: 1 image
Subjects: Minstrel shows., Blackface entertainers., Broadsides -- United States -- 19th century., Theater -- New York (State) -- New York.
Note: 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.;
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-bro-min-007

Title: Complete American banjo school
Names: Stewart, S. S. (S. Swaim), 1855-
Publisher: S.S. Stewart
Place Published: Philadelphia (Pa.)
Type: Books
Pages: 73 image files, 1 PDF file
Subjects: Banjo -- Instruction and study, Banjo -- Studies and exercises, Banjo -- Methods, Banjo -- History, Banjo music
Abstract: Nonsequentially numbered back material includes: "Observations on Stroke or Thimble Playing on the Banjo", "The Banjo Philosophically, Its Construction, Its Capabilities, Its Evolution, Its place as a Musical instrument. Its possibilities, and Its Future : A Lecture", "An Exposition of the Harmonic Tones Used in Banjo Playing and Their Philosophy" and "How to Put a Head on a Banjo."
Note: Stated "36th Edition." With a new preface and supplementary material. A fundamental document of the era of the parlour banjo, by the eminent maker and theoretician, first published in 1883. A second part was offered separately.
Part of: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Banjo Collection
Identifier: yhm-spe-ban-sss-complete
Use/Rights: https://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/

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