blackface, performing arts

22 media by topicpage 1 of 1
Gorton's Original New Orleans Minstrels

Gorton's Original New Orleans Minstrels

Includes small portraits of Jos. Gorton and Chas. H. Larkin. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cantor, George Grantham Bain Collection

Cantor, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows singer Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) in blackface in front of a billboard for the Ziegfield Follies with "Buy War Saving Stamps" statement. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2017) Title from data pro... More

Harvard Theatre Collection - Ferdinand Bonn TCS 1.2795

Harvard Theatre Collection - Ferdinand Bonn TCS 1.2795

Cabinet card image of German actor Ferdinand Bonn (1861-1933), in character as Othello. TCS 1.2795, Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University

Singing Fool Jolson Poster film poster

Singing Fool Jolson Poster film poster

Poster for the American musical drama film The Singing Fool (1928) staring Al Jolson, with representation of Jolson in blackface.

Stage actress Hattie Carmontelle in blackface (SAYRE 18280)

Stage actress Hattie Carmontelle in blackface (SAYRE 18280)

Stage actress Hattie Carmontelle in blackface. Subjects: actresses, minstrels and minstrel shows

Stage actress Ira Donnette in blackface (SAYRE 23672)

Stage actress Ira Donnette in blackface (SAYRE 23672)

Stage actress Ira Donnette in blackface. Subjects: actresses, minstrels and minstrel shows

Eva Earle French, stage actress (SAYRE 2487)

Eva Earle French, stage actress (SAYRE 2487)

Eva Earle French, stage actress Subjects: actresses, plays

Eva Earle French, stage actress (SAYRE 2731)

Eva Earle French, stage actress (SAYRE 2731)

Eva Earle French, stage actress Subjects: actresses, plays Public domain image of theatrical costume design, theater, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eva Earle French, stage actress (SAYRE 2983)

Eva Earle French, stage actress (SAYRE 2983)

Eva Earle French, stage actress Subjects: actresses Public domain photograph related to 19th-century Africa, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A scene from "Toby's Bow" (SAYRE 14125)

A scene from "Toby's Bow" (SAYRE 14125)

A scene from "Toby's Bow," which played at the Clemmer Theater, Seattle. Date stamped Jan. 21, 1920. Includes Tom Moore. Nick Cogley played "Uncle Toby" in blackface. The use of white actors in blackface for... More

Uncle Tom's Cabin (SAYRE 14013)

Uncle Tom's Cabin (SAYRE 14013)

Still from the American drama film Uncle Tom's Cabin (1918) Subjects: motion pictures

Vaudeville entertainer Lew Hawkins in blackface (SAYRE 3010)

Vaudeville entertainer Lew Hawkins in blackface (SAYRE 3010)

Vaudeville entertainer Lew Hawkins in blackface. Subjects: vaudeville

Vaudeville entertainer Lew Hawkins in blackface (SAYRE 3291)

Vaudeville entertainer Lew Hawkins in blackface (SAYRE 3291)

Vaudeville entertainer Lew Hawkins in blackface. Subjects: vaudeville

Vaudeville entertainer Sam Hood in blackface (SAYRE 3481)

Vaudeville entertainer Sam Hood in blackface (SAYRE 3481)

Vaudeville entertainer Sam Hood in blackface. Subjects: vaudeville

Jolson black - A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie

Jolson black - A black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie

Warner Bros. publicity photo for the film The Jazz Singer (1927), featuring its starAl Jolson. Source: Scan from private collection Original publisher/holder of property rights: Warner Bros.

Group of principals in "Watch Your Step" at the New Amsterdam Theatre

Group of principals in "Watch Your Step" at the New Amsterdam Theatre

Group of principals in "Watch Your Step" at the New Amsterdam Theatre. From Left to Right Are: Elizabeth Brice, Charles Ring, Mrs. Vernon Castle, Vernon Castle, Frank Tinney, Sallie Fisher, Harry Kelly and Eli... More

Vekoslav Janko, Slovenia

Vekoslav Janko, Slovenia

Vekoslav Janko (1899-1973), Slovene opera singer

Moran and Mack The Two Black Crows - The Film Daily, Jul-Dec 1932 (page 464 crop)

Moran and Mack The Two Black Crows - The Film Daily, Jul-Dec 1932 (pag...

Public domain photograph of an advertising poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Moran and Mack, vaudeville blackface performers (SAYRE 13009)

Moran and Mack, vaudeville blackface performers (SAYRE 13009)

Moran and Mack, vaudeville blackface performers billed as The Two Black Crows. Subjects (LCTGM): vaudeville

Roll Along (1923) - 1 - silent film printed advertisement

Roll Along (1923) - 1 - silent film printed advertisement

Advertisement for the American backface comedy film Roll Along (1923), on pages 8 and 9 of the June 3, 1923 Film Daily. The ad states that the film "has all the humor of the Plantation Negro that for years has... More

Stanislavski as Othello 1896

Stanislavski as Othello 1896

The Russian actor and director Constantin Stanislavski (Константин Сергеевич Станиславский) as William Shakespeare's Othello (1896)

The Jazz Singer (SAYRE 14778)

The Jazz Singer (SAYRE 14778)

Still from the American drama film The Jazz Singer (1927). Subjects (LCTGM): motion pictures, actors, actresses