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Buckley’s New Banjo Book: containing full and complete instructions for learning to play the...

Buckley’s New Banjo Book: containing full and complete instructions for learning to play the Banjo, with or without a teacher . . . Being the very best Selection of Banjo Music ever presented to the Public.

Boston: Oliver Ditson (copyright held by Firth, Pond & Co.), 1860. Cardboard covers. First edition. Collated and complete with all 80 pages. Illustrated card covers with cloth spine covering. Cover illustration of Buckley (not in blackface) sitting in a chair and playing his banjo. Worn spine and cracked hinges. Soiling..... More

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Letter from a young man in a small California timber town to a friend in Oakland about attending...

Letter from a young man in a small California timber town to a friend in Oakland about attending a dance dressed as a “nigger wench” and obtaining sheet music and “bones” for an amateur minstrel show

Camptonville, California: 1883. Unbound. This three-page letter is complete with its mailing envelope. The envelope is franked with a green, 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott A46) and bears a large, circular Camptonville postmark. Both are in nice shape. Transcript included. In this letter, W. M. thanks his Oakland friend..... More

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Small packet material relating to Tom Water’s piano-comedy, The Mayor of Laughland. Fred G....

Small packet material relating to Tom Water’s piano-comedy, The Mayor of Laughland

Philadelphia: The Nixon & Zimmerman Enterprises, 1907. Envelope or Cover. This lot consists of three items: a booking letter on illustrated letterhead, its accompanying illustrated advertising cover, and a second, different illustrated advertising cover. In the booking letter, Nixon humorously confronts a theater manager regarding a disagreement over a booking..... More

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Grouping of three mounted minstrel photographs and two minstrel music pamphlets belonging to a...

Grouping of three mounted minstrel photographs and two minstrel music pamphlets belonging to a member of an Ohio post of the Sons of Veterans of the United States

Cedarville, Ohio: circa 1915. One photograph, measuring 9.75” x 7.75”, shows an entire finely-dressed blackface minstrel company posed on an ornately curtained stage. A second photograph, approximately 7” x 5”, shows eight members of the company posed on the same stage carrying a drum, sabers, and pennants for Cedarville, Slippery..... More

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