Christy's New Songster and Black Joker
date: label: date made
content: 1863
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: E. Byron Chrisy and William E. Christy, comp. "Christy's New Songster and Black Joker" (New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863)
label: Description (Brief)
content: Yellow paper cover with black ink. off-white paper inside pages with black ink. This book features "Songs, Choruses, Stump Speeches, Witticisms, Jokes, Conundrums, etc." as sung and delivered by the blackface minstrel group, Christy's Minstrels, formed by Edwin Pearce Christy.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.3125.11
label: nonaccession number
content: 2016.3125
label: catalog number
content: 2016.3125.11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: book
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 4 in x 1/8 in; 15.24 cm x 10.16 cm x .3175 cm