Theater playbill for Sanford's Opera Troupe at the Odd Fellows' Hall, Washington, D.C., March 14, 1862
Contributors: Polkinhorn's Steam Printing Office; Odd Fellow's Hall (Washington, D.C.); Theater Playbills and Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: H. Polkinhorn's Steam Job Press, D. st., near 7th
Published: 1862
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Other titles: Sanford's Opera Troupe!; Italian opera.
Description: Odd Fellows' Hall. Seventh Street, Washington. The only minstrels in the city! Crowded houses! To witness the far-famed Sanford's Opera Troupe! The greatest troupe of artists in the minstrel profession, of Sanford's Opera House, Philadelphia. Friday ev'g, March 14, '62 ... Novelty nightly! Great hit! The Italian Opera! will be repeated this evening ... In preparation, one of the most laughable extravaganzas of the day ...
Notes: Title devised by Library staff from item.

In: American theater programs of the late 19th and 20th centuries (Library of Congress).
Table of contents: title: Programme: Part I. Overture / Holden, Strade, and Orchestra; title: Openin Chorus / Stanford's Troupe; title: The Farm Yard / Mr. Hughes; title: Deal with me kindly / Mr. I.A. Paine; title: Nell Flagherty's Drake / Mr. Bordwell; title: Say a kind word when you can / Mr. J.A. Arnold; title: Mississippi Chant / Mr. Sanford; title: Quickstep / Orchestra; title: Part II: Varieties. Ballad: selected / Mrs. A Bordwell; title: Them Irishmen! / Arnold, Hughes, Sanford, and Bordwell; title: Duet / Paine and Arnold; title: Lecture on Love / Sanford; title: Scene / Mr. and Mrs. Bordwell; title: Strange scenes from The Stranger / Mrs. Cushman Haller: Sanford, The Stranger: T.A. Becket, Children: Brothers Arnold; title: Sparks of Electricity / Bordwell, Hughes, and Edmonds; title: - Peter Grey / Sanford; title: Song and Dance / Hughes; title: To conclude with a grand pot-pie entield "Italian Opera" introducing M'lle Patti, Sig. Brignoli, Sig. Susini, Carl Formes, Sig. Marini, Sig. Roco, Sig. Sanguirico, Signora Bordi, Sig. Paini, Sig. Arnoldi, Sig. Scoti, Sig. Sanfordi, Sig. Becki, Sig. Bordi, grand effective chrous by something less than 100 artistes! Got-chalked executes the piano, Sig. Straw-Hash, conductor.