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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Original Nashville Students in alliance with Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Original Nashville Students in alliance with Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival
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The name at the top, "Original Nashville Students," is what sets this poster apart. It advertises a troupe that borrowed a name from the Black vocal groups tied to Nashville's Fisk University, which had toured widely since the 1870s, and the head line claims "25 years before the public." Printed in color by the U.S. Printing Co. of Cincinnati and New York in about 1899, the lithograph pairs the show with Gideon's Big Minstrel Carnival. Its subjects, which include dandies, dogs, and minstrel stock figures, reflect the caricatured portrayals of Black Americans common on 1890s minstrel posters.
| 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 | 1,065 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141329 |
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