Call Number	priJLC_ENT_000204
Title	Hyde’s Star Specialty Co. : Frank Howard.
Printer	Liebler & Maass
Printer Location	New York (N.Y.)
Date	approximately 1889
Date Searchable	1884; 1885; 1886; 1887; 1888; 1889; 1890; 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894
Physical Description	1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 104.46 x 40.96 cm (41 1/8 x 16 1/8 in.)
Object Type	Posters, advertising
Description	Image of an older African American man holding a cane and carpetbag, with a rural cabin in the background; the poster presumably advertises the sketch "Way Down South" performed by blackface actor Frank Howard with Hyde's Star Specialty Company under the management of James Hyde.
Notes	Date approximated by cataloger based on newspaper articles from 1889 and 1890 describing the show, including one describing the sketch "Way Down South" performed by the "Hyde Musical and Specialty Company" and noting "Frank Howard, the leader in the sketch, is one of the best old man plantation negro personators ever seen here" (Sacramento Daily Record, 12 April 1890, page 8). "Liebler & Maass / Litho. New York"--text, bottom right of image. "107--text, bottom right of image.
Local Subject Description	Hyde’s Star Specialty Company
Subjects	Howard, Frank A., -1930 -- Portraits. Actors -- Portraits. African Americans -- Performances & portrayals. African Americans -- Pictorial works. Blackface entertainers -- Pictorial works. Minstrel shows. Older people -- Pictorial works. Theatrical productions.
Form/Genre	Lithographs -- Color -- 1875-1900. (gmgpc) Theatrical posters -- American. (gmgpc)
Language	English [eng]
Contributor 01	Last, Jay T. (donor)
Physical Collection	Jay T. Last Collection
Physical Sub-Collection	Entertainment
Physical Series	Large Size
Physical Sub-Series	Music and Theater
Digital Collection	The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
Department	The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. Prints and Ephemera
Finding Aid/Guide to Collection	For more information about this collection see: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z321cb/
Digitization Specifications	High resolution.
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Unique Digital Identifier	386175