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Poster for "Neil O'Brien and his Great American Minstrels"



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Title: Poster for "Neil O'Brien and his Great American Minstrels"
Description: Color lithograph poster on paper. Across the top reads "Oscar F. Hodge presents," under which in larger blue letters is "Neil O'Brien." Below this follows "and his great American minstrels." The image portrays O'Brien, in blackface, sitting alongside a railroad track and inspecting the large hole in his boot while he scratches his head. The caption at bottom reads "'It's a long way to Alabama' Neil O'Brien."
Image ID: 89853
Creation
Date: 		1915 ca.
Creator
Name: 		Strobridge Lithographic Company
Collection
Name:
Genre: Posters
Additional
Information: 		O'Brien (c. 1869-1954) began as the endman in Lew Dockstader's Minstrels. He appears as an actor in several quasi-Shakespearean productions and farces in the early years of the century, and went solo after 1915. A recording of him singing with James J. Corbett is available on "The Monarchs of Minstrelsy."
Subjects: Theaters
Minstrel shows
Posters
 

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Please Credit: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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