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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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FormatTextCall numberSc D 87-306Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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FormatTextCall numberMWET 87-1405Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Singing the master : the emergence of African American culture in the plantation south / Roger D. Abrahams.

Text

New York : Pantheon Books, 1992.

1992

1 item

Available online

Table of contents
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FormatTextCall numberSc D 92-514Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Lion comedies motion picture stills collection [graphic].

Still image

<1900?-1929?>

1900-1929

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Motion picturesItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
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Swanee river motion picture stills collection [graphic].

Still image

<1940.>

1940

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Motion picturesItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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One exciting night motion picture stills collection [graphic].

Still image

<photographed 1922, printed later.>

1922

0 resources

"Gentlemen, be seated!" : A parade of the old-time minstrels / by Dailey Paskman and Sigmund Spaeth ; with a foreword by Daniel Frohman ; profusely illustrated from old prints and photographs and with complete music for voice and piano.

Text

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran, 1928.

1928

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc 791.1-P (Paskman, D. Gentlemen, be seated!)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Minstrel memories : the story of burnt cork minstrelsy in Great Britain from 1836 to 1927 / by Harry Reynolds.

Text

London : A. Rivers, [1928]

1928

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc 791.1-R (Reynolds, H. Minstrel memories)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Love and theft : blackface minstrelsy and the American working class / Eric Lott.

Text

New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

1993

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberJNE 93-79Item locationOffsite

Wilhelmina F. Adams photograph collection [graphic].

Still image

1900-1987.

1900-1987

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Wilhelmina F. Adams Collection box 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Wilhelmina F. Adams Collection box 1Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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George Primrose / photograph, no credit given.

Still image

[between 1893 and 1910]

1893-1910

1 resource

Blackface, white noise : Jewish immigrants in the Hollywood melting pot / Michael Rogin.

Text

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996.

1996

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 96-403Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberMFL 96-10683Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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Reviews.

Text

1996

0 resources

The evolution of the images of African-American characters in the American commercial musical / by Warren B. Burdine.

Text

1991.

1991

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 97-218 v. 1-2Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Demons of disorder : early blackface minstrels and their world / Dale Cockrell.

Text

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

1997

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 97-1610Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Darktown strutters : a novel / by Wesley Brown.

Text

New York, N.Y. : Cane Hill Press, c1994.

1994

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 97-2114Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Raising Cain : blackface performance from Jim Crow to Hip Hop / W.T. Lhamon, Jr.

Text

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.

1998

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 98-342Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Catalogue of white face colored minstrel and colored musical comedy. No. 2, Cards, hangers and posters in stock at St. Louis office of the National Printing & Engraving Company.

Text

New York : National Printing & Engraving Company, [1912?]

1912

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Rare D 99-7Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Eve cost Adam just one bone / [words and music] by Charles Bayha.

Notated music

New York : Skidmore, c1921.

1921

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberM.C. (Broadway brevities, 1920. Eve cost Adam)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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I love her-she loves me / words by Irving Caesar & Eddie Cantor ; music by Irving Caesar.

Notated music

New York : Harms, c1922.

1922

1 item

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FormatNotated musicCall numberM.C. (Make it snappy, 1922. I love her-she loves me)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Bonnie Clark collection [graphic].

Still image

[191-?]-1959.

195-1959

1 item

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Bonnie Clark CollectionItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Whirl of society keysheets.

Still image

New York, 1912.

1912

1 resource

The moon shines on the moonshine / lyric by Francis De Witt ; music by Robert Hood Bowers.

Notated music

New York : Shapiro, Bernstein, 1920.

1920

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberM.C. (Ziegfeld follies, 1920. Moon shines on the moonshine)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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O-hi-o : o-my!-o! / words by Jack Yellen ; music by Abe Olman.

Notated music

Chicago : Forster Music Pub., c1920.

1920

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberM.C. (Midnight rounders, 1920. O-hi-o)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Good-bye boys / words by Andrew B. Sterling and William Jerome ; music by Harry Von Tilzer.

Notated music

New York : H. Von Tilzer, c1913.

1913

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberM.C. (Honeymoon express, 1913. Good-bye boys)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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I makes mine myself / lyric by Francis De Witt ; music by Robert Hood Bowers.

Notated music

New York : Shapiro, Bernstein, c1921

1921

1 item

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FormatNotated musicCall numberM.C. (Broadway brevities, 1920. I makes mine myself)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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I want to know where Tosti went : (when he said "good-bye") / [words and music] by Chris. Smith.

Notated music

New York : Shapiro, Bernstein, c1920.

1920

1 item

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FormatNotated musicCall numberM.C. (Broadway brevities, 1920. I want to know)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Little rover : (don't forget to come back home) / lyric by Gus Kahn ; music by Walter Donaldson.

Notated music

New York : Shapiro, Bernstein, c1923.

1923

1 item

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FormatNotated musicCall numberM.C. (Make it snappy, 1922. Little rover)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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All coons look alike to me / words and music by Ernest Hogan.

Notated music

New York : M. Witmark, c1896.

1896

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberMusic (Sheet) 99-303Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Hello Broadway keysheets.

Still image

New York, 1914.

1914

1 resource

Snap your fingers and away you go / words by William Jerome ; music by Harry Von Tilzer.

Notated music

New York : H. Von Tilzer, c1912.

1912

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatNotated musicCall numberMusic (Sheet) 00-349Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Vaudeville [videorecording] / Producer, Rosemary Garner ; A Production of Thirteen/WNET, KCTS/9 Television, and Palmer/Fenster ; conceived and written by Greg Palmer.

Moving image

c1997.

1997

1 item

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FormatMoving imageCall numberNCOX 1614Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Negro Actors Guild of America photograph collection [graphic].

Still image

[190-]-[198-]

198-198

16 items

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Negro Actors Guild of America Collection Box 16Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Negro Actors Guild of America Collection Box 15Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Negro Actors Guild of America Collection Box 14Item locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Sinbad keysheets.

Still image

New York, 1918.

1918

1 resource

Watch your step keysheets.

Still image

New York, 1914.

1914

1 resource

The Ziegfeld follies of 1914 keysheets.

Still image

New York, 1914.

1914

1 resource

Darktown strutters : a novel / Wesley Brown ; afterword by W. T. Lhamon Jr.

Text

Amherst : University of Massachusetts, [2000]

2000-1994

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 03-2979Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Bamboozled [videorecording] / New Line Cinema presents a 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; written and directed by Spike Lee ; produced by Jon Kilik and Spike Lee.

Moving image

U.S. : New Line Home Entertainment, c2001.

2001

1 item

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FormatMoving imageCall number*MGZIDVD 5-3Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Men in blackface : true stories of the Minstrel show / Seymour Stark.

Text

[Philadelphia? : Xlibris Corp.?], c2000.

2000

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 04-1216Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Jolson & Company : the new musical [videorecording] / Ric Wanetik and Crimson Productions present ; [written] by Stephen Mo Hanan & Jay Berkow ; direction and musical staging by Jay Berkow ; [video prod. company] Parker/Hodges Productions ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.

Moving image

New York, c2002.

2002

1 item

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FormatMoving imageCall numberNCOV 2664Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Jump Jim Crow : lost plays, lyrics, and street prose of the first Atlantic popular culture / W.T. Lhamon, Jr.

Text

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

2003

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 03-1355Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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"The real character of the Negro on the stage" : African American theatre as risk and possibility, 1890-1908 / by Barbara L. Webb.

Text

2003.

2003

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 04-3267Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Female impersonation in nineteenth-century American blackface minstrelsy / by Annemarie Bean.

Text

c2001.

2001

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 04-3306Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Performing blackness on English stages, 1500-1800 / Virginia Mason Vaughan.

Text

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

2005

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 05-1006Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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