Advertisement for Sanford's American Opera House: Museum Object and Cultural History
Advertisement for Sanford's American Opera House: date made: 1856. Object Name: Advertisement. Object Name: advertisement, minstrelsy.
The object in the museum catalogue
Advertistment clipped from Colton's Atlas of America, Philadelphia Commercial Edition, 1856.. The ad claims "Sanford's American Opera House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania." as "the largest company of Musicians, Commedians, Vocalists and Pantomimists in the world. Introducing the music, song and poetry of all nations, and local extravaganzas.,, Admittance 25 cents ... Under the direction of the proprietor Samual S. Sanford."
Samuel Sanford's Opera Troupe was a blackface minstrel group from 1853-1857.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1856
- Object Name: Advertisement
- Object Name: advertisement, minstrelsy
- Object Name: advertisement
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 9 1/4 in x 8 in; 23.495 cm x 20.32 cm
- referenced: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- general subject association: Theater
- web subject: Entertainment
- Subject: Blackface
- ID Number: 1981.0768.04
- accession number: 1981.0768
- catalog number: 1981.0768.04
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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