Printed Broadside for George Christy's Minstrels, September 2, 1861, featuring the song "Fight for Uncle Sam."...

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Printed Broadside for George Christy's Minstrels, September 2, 1861, featuring the song "Fight for Uncle Sam." 9" x 24.25" sight size, attractively matted and framed to 14" x 29.25" (overall). The poster advertises a performance by George Christy's minstrel troupe at the Stuyvesant Institute on Broadway opposite Bond Street in New York City. Among the acts is a singing of the song "[We'll] Fight for Uncle Sam," a popular pro-Union song aimed at getting Irish volunteers by pointing out that the hated British were supporting the Confederacy. The poster features an engraving of a minstrel performer doing the "Ethiopian Jig." Folds, minor paper loss at the edge, else very fine.

George Christy was perhaps the leading blackface performers in America during the mid-1860s. He is credited with inventing the "line", a semicircle of performers in blackface in which "end men" named "Mr. Tambo" and "Mr. Bones" from their instruments joked at the expense of a White "middleman" called "Mr. Interlocutor".

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2009 December Signature Arms & Militaria Including Civil War Auction #6021 (go to Auction Home page)

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December, 2009

12th Saturday

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Sold on Dec 12, 2009 for: $717.00

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