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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 whose top caption reads "Oscar F. Hodge presents" followed in larger type by "Neil O'Brien and His Great American Minstrels." Below that is "Emil Subers, The Georgia Sunflower." The image is a large portrait bust of a grinning Subers in blackface.
Image ID: 89899
Creation
Date: 		1895 ca.
Creator
Name: 		Strobridge Lithographic Company
Collection
Name: 		WCFTR Posters
Genre: Posters
Additional
Information: 		O'Brien was said the perform a "realistic darky" rather than a caricature, although he featured eccentric characters. His career began in 1889 as an endman in upstate New York companies. He performed as part of duos (O'Brien and Bell; Bogart and O'Brien) before joining Haverly's in 1892 and working with them in between the periods of running his own company. He is reported to have received one of the highest salaries paid to a minstrel performer.
Subjects: Minstrel shows
Posters
 

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Please Credit: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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