James H. Wallick's Bandit King Co.
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: depicted
content: Lyons, Fred
label: depicted
content: Wallick, James H.
label: maker
content: Great Western Printing Company
notes: label: Description
content: This colored print is a stereotypical depiction of composer and lyricist Fred Lyons as "Old Bob," seated in a bar and playing a banjo with a donkey named "Calamity Jane" braying at his side. Fred Lyons was a popular 19th Century African American minstrel entertainer who composed many songs including "Paint All De Little Black Sinners White" and “Dem Chickens Roost too High,” published in 1887.
label: Description
content: James H. Wallick (ca 1839-1908) was born in Hurley, New York. Sources have suggested varying possibilities for his birth name, including Patrick J. Fubbins, James Henry Wheeler, or James H. Fubbins Wallick. There has also been speculation that he took the last name Wallick to link himself to the actor James William Wallack, Sr. James Wallick appeared in melodramas and circuses before achieving his best-known success in <i> The Bandit King</i>, a touring Wild West show based on the life of outlaw Jesse James, recast as a hero named Joe Howard. Wallick created, produced, and starred in the drama, which offered stock features of the genre like horses, buffalo, and riding and sharpshooting tricks. In addition, the shows sometimes featured Robert J. Ford, James's real-life killer. Wallick’s other productions included <i> The Cattle King </i> and <i> The Mountain King</i>. He made and lost several fortunes over the course of his career and suffered from heavy debt. He committed suicide in 1908.
label: Description
content: This chromolithograph was published by the Great Western Printing Company, which was probably based in St. Louis, Missouri.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Saint Louis
topic: label: Subject
content: Costume
label: Subject
content: Blacks
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content: Music
label: Subject
content: Theater
label: depicted
content: Stereotypes
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content: Minstrels
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3035
label: catalog number
content: 60.3035
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chromolithograph
label: Object Type
content: Chromolithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 20 in x 19 in; 50.8 cm x 48.26 cm