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Bonnie and Semoura Clark black vaudeville photographs and ephemera, 1909-1958

Creator:
Clark, Bonnie
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 15
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
38
Abstract:
48 photographs depicting predominantly black vaudeville acts, most of them unidentified, many of them inscribed to Bonnie and Semoura. Includes photographs of chorus girls, minstrels, and cross dressers; identified photographs are of Phil Black, Blain...
Description:
Bonnie and Semoura Clark, black vaudevillians who toured with the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA). The TOBA provided segregated entertainment for blacks in the South and Midwest. The Clarks act was probably comical, relying in part on cross ...
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Black, Phil, Clark, Bonnie, Clark, Semoura, and Theater Owners Booking Association.
Subject (Topic):
Vaudeville, African American actors, Minstrel shows, Cross-dressing, and Minstrels
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bonnie and Semoura Clark black vaudeville photographs and ephemera, 1909-1958

2.
Bonnie and Semoura Clark black vaudeville photographs and ephemera, 1909-1958

Creator:
Clark, Bonnie
Call Number:
JWJ MSS 15
Container / Volume:
Box 2
Image Count:
12
Abstract:
48 photographs depicting predominantly black vaudeville acts, most of them unidentified, many of them inscribed to Bonnie and Semoura. Includes photographs of chorus girls, minstrels, and cross dressers; identified photographs are of Phil Black, Blain...
Description:
Bonnie and Semoura Clark, black vaudevillians who toured with the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA). The TOBA provided segregated entertainment for blacks in the South and Midwest. The Clarks act was probably comical, relying in part on cross ...
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Name):
Black, Phil, Clark, Bonnie, Clark, Semoura, and Theater Owners Booking Association.
Subject (Topic):
Vaudeville, African American actors, Minstrel shows, Cross-dressing, and Minstrels
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Bonnie and Semoura Clark black vaudeville photographs and ephemera, 1909-1958

3.
Lubly Rose oh! Coal black Rose Tank you Sambo yes I cum, Dont you hear the Banjo tum, tum, Oh! Rose

Published / Created:
[not before 1829]
Call Number:
829.00.00.120
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A visualization of the racist folk song, "Coal Black Rose", one of the earliest songs to be sung by a man in blackface, popularized in July 1829. The lyrics of "Coal Black Rose" tells of a fight between two black men, Sambo and Cuffee, rivals for the ...
Description:
Title from text below image, which are lyrics from the song sung by the depicted figures: Lubly Rose Oh! Coal Black Rose. Tank you Sambo yes I cum. Dont you hear the banjo tum, tum. Oh! Rose the Coal Black Rose.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Blackface minstrel music, Black people, Banjos, Ethnic stereotypes, and Minstrel shows
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Lubly Rose oh! Coal black Rose Tank you Sambo yes I cum, Dont you hear the Banjo tum, tum, Oh! Rose the coal black Rose. [graphic]

4.
Monarchs of minstrelsy : from "Daddy" Rice to date / by Edw. Le Roy Rice ...

Creator:
Rice, Edw. Le Roy (Edward Le Roy), b. 1871
Published / Created:
[c1911].
Call Number:
JWJ Za R361 911m
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
Carl Van Vechten autograph on inside front cover.
Publisher:
Kenny Publishing,
Subject (Name):
Corbett, James J., 1866-1933, Frothingham, George B, Hitchcock, Raymond, 1865-1929, and Van Vechten, Carl,--1880-1964--Autograph
Subject (Topic):
Actors, American, Minstrel shows, Minstrels--United States, and Vaudeville--United States
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Monarchs of minstrelsy : from "Daddy" Rice to date / by Edw. Le Roy Rice ...

5.
Richards and Pringle's famous Georgia minstrels : headed by the great and only Billy Kersands

Call Number:
BrSides 2018 26
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Alternative Title:
24 years under the same management that created it and Twenty-four years under the same management that created it
Subject (Name):
Kersands, Billy
Subject (Topic):
African Americans in the performing arts and Minstrel shows
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Richards and Pringle's famous Georgia minstrels : headed by the great and only Billy Kersands, traveling in their own $10,000 hotel car.