Theater playbill for S.S. Sanford and Troupe of Minstrels at Odd-Fellows' Hall, Washington, D.C., October 10, 1859
Contributors: Myers, J. R. (J. Richard), 1809-1874, performer; Landis, John, -1863, performer; Sliter, Dick, -1861, performer; Odd Fellow's Hall (Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: U.S. Steam-Power Book and Job Printing Office, Ledger Buildings
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Philada
Language: eng
Other titles: S.S. Sanford; For one week only, go and see the great comedian of the age S.S. Sanford
Description: Odd-Fellows' Hall, Washington. For one week only, go and see the great comedian of the age S.S. Sanford, the pioneer of minstrelsy, acknowledged by the press and public, as having the best troupe of minstrels in the world, will appear Monday evening, October 10th, 1859 ... S.S. Sanford will, after an absence of seven years from this City, re-appear among his earliest friends and patrons, illustrating national peculiarities, Northern drollery, Southern chivalry, Eastern acuteness, Western adventures! and personal reminiscences of England, Ireland & Scotland! Together with his great representation of Southern Darkies who is pronounced as the best Negro Performer living, and the only successor to Jim Crow Rice. Sanford & his associates are the stars of the profession. Ole Bull Myers, John Landis and Dick Sliter, whose names are household words, are a sufficeint guarantee of the capabilities of the Troupe, together with additional favorites, form a complete troupe capable of producing all the beauties of minstrelsy ... Tuesday evening, entire change of programme ...
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LC copy rehoused: 2014-10-02. Shelved in Oversize.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Programme: Part 1: Overture / Edmonds, Myers and Band; title: Opening chorus / Sanford's Troupe; title: Oh! My Love is Gone / Sanford; title: Shells of Ocean / Master Lewis; title: John Morgan / J.W. Landis; title: Nursery Rhymes / Kavanaugh; title: Low Lands Low / Sanford; title: Seeing Nelly Home / Perrine; title: Comic Round / Sanford's Troupe; title: Part II. Sanford's Carnival! Burlesque Fling / Dick Sliter; title: Ballad: Ever of Thee / Master Lewis; title: Robert Ridley, J.W. Landis accompanied by Ole Bulle Myers; title: Solo on the Jewish Dulcimer / Morris Edmonds; title: More-I-See and Been-He-See Boy / by Landis and S.S. Sanford; title: Sliter's Champion Jig / Dick Sliter; title: The Crow Family / Sanford, Perrine and Landis; title: Shanghai Duet / Edmonds and Landis; title: Three-Legged Man / Mynheer Johanis Vandersisionbiddlecowvenhovensmiff in his grand Polka de Trois; title: Double Violin Solo / Landis and Myer; title: To conclude with the last New Plantation Scene, entitled "Dixie's Land" introducing a grand trial dance / by Sliter, Landis and Sanford.