Man in blackface as minstrel – Antique Print
![Man in blackface as minstrel, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1910] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b2/b2e98021ccb7-L.webp)
(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 historic photograph of Man in blackface as minstrel. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Man in blackface as minstrel
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A man in blackface makeup, costumed as a minstrel performer, poses for this portrait made sometime between about 1890 and 1910. Minstrel shows, built on exaggerated and demeaning caricatures of Black Americans, were among the most popular forms of stage entertainment in the United States in the late 1800s and remained widely performed into the early twentieth century. Frances Benjamin Johnston, whose collection holds the print, was a prominent American photographer working in those decades, and her archive documents many aspects of the period's social and theatrical life. Today the image is best viewed critically, as a record of how racist stereotypes were staged and circulated.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1910] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1890-1910.Photographic prints 1890-1910. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,071 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-124020 |
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