Title	Samaritan Minstrels, Grand Entertainment
Description	Small broadside advertising a local minstrel show. The broadside provides a listing of the entire program and the price of admission.
Historical Note	The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of comic skits, variety acts, dancing, and music, performed by white people in blackface or even, especially after the Civil War, blacks in blackface. Minstrel shows lampooned African Americans as ignorant, lazy, buffoonish, superstitious, joyous, and musical. The heyday of the minstrel show was the period between 1840 and 1880.
Date	1869 July 5
Place	Fayetteville (Tenn.)
Publisher	Fayetteville Observer
Place of Publication	Fayetteville (Tenn.)
Collection Name	Library Broadside Collection
Collection Finding Aid	http://sos.tn.gov/products/tsla/library-broadside-collection-1814-2010
Subjects - LCSH	Broadsides; Minstrels; Minstrel music; Fayetteville (Tenn.)
Subjects - TGM	Broadsides Minstrels Entertainers Minstrel shows Theatrical posters Singers
Owning Institution	Tennessee State Library and Archives
ID#	34448
Digital Type	TEXT
Digital Format	TIFF
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