Original Nashville Students in alliance with Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this vintage poster of Original Nashville Students in alliance with Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Original Nashville Students in alliance with Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival
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The poster advertises the Original Nashville Students, presented in alliance with Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival, and its header claims the troupe had been performing for 25 years before the public. Printed as a color lithograph in 1899 by the U.S. Printing Co. of Cincinnati and New York, it reflects how traveling shows of the era marketed themselves through bold, eye-catching posters. Its subject listing includes "dandies" and "dogs," which points to the caricatured portrayals of Black performers common in minstrel entertainment of the period. Today such images are valued as evidence of how popular culture represented African Americans and how circus and carnival advertising was designed to draw crowds.
| Created / published | Cincinnati ; New York : U.S. Printing Co., c1899. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 35 x 24 cm. |
| Genre | Cincinnati & New York." At head of title: 25 years before the public. Rusco & Holland |
| Notes | Created and copyright 1899 by The U.S. Printing Co. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Performances & portrayals. Dogs. Dandies. Minstrel shows. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,126 × 5,141 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-224044 |
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