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Lot 139
Sale 2070 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana
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Feb 14, 2025
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Feb 27, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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[MINSTRELSY]. USBM Black Mail ... The Colored Letter Carriers Songster and other books.
DOCKSTADER, Charles R. (1847-1907). The Dockstaders' Colored Letter Carriers Songster; Containing the Greatest Collection of These Champion Stars Best Songs, as Sung by Them in All the Principal Theaters of the United States. New York: New York Popular Publishing Company, 32 Beekman Street, [1881?]. 64pp, approx. 4 x 6 1/2 in. (tears, toning, adhesive remnants, scattered pencil markings, bottom right corner of cover detached but present). Minstrel songster featuring a rare color depiction of the Dockstader Minstrels as mail carriers. Scarce, OCLC locates only 2 copies, at University of Chicago Library and Brown University.
[With:] TOWNSEND, Charles. Negro Minstrels with End Men's Jokes, Gags, Speeches, etc. Chicago: T.S. Denison & Company, [1891]. -- STRATTON, Wade. When Cork is King. New Crossfire Conversations, End Gags and Retorts for Male, Female and Mixed Minstrels; Monologues, Skits and Stump Speeches. Chicago: T. S. Denison & Company, [1921].


