Postcard advertising Fogg & Alger troupe: Museum Object and Cultural History
Postcard advertising Fogg & Alger troupe: Object Name: postcard. Physical Description: paper (overall material). Physical Description: printed (overall production method/technique).
The object in the museum catalogue
Real photo postcard advertisement for the "MUSICAL X-N-TRICKS" and blackface minstrel troupe Fogg & Alger. The postcard features a photograph of the performers, one in a band uniform, and the other in blackface makeup with tussled hair.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Object Name: postcard
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: printed (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements: overall: 5 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 8.89 cm
- place made: United States: Illinois, Chicago
- Subject: Entertainment
- Subject: Theater
- Subject: Theater, Minstrel Shows
- ID Number: 2017.0295.17
- accession number: 2017.0295
- catalog number: 2017.0295.17
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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