Title: Theater playbill for Morris Brothers, Pell and Trowbridge's Minstrels at Sanford's Opera House, Philadelphia, May 1, 1858
Description: Sanford's Opera House, Eleventh Street, between Chestnut and Market. Grand May Day Matinee this (Saturday) afternoon, and a concert in the evening of Morris Bros. Pell and Trowbridge's Minstrels from Boston. Saturday Afternoon and Evening, May 1st, 1858, doors open at 2 o'clock. Commence at 3. 13 star performers! Dick Sliter! The champion dancer, every night and Saturday afternoon. The invisibile chorus and anvil chorus. Johnny Pell and Morris Bros., the funniest trio living. Mast. Rentz, the wonder of the world, Little Tommy, the juvenile comedian, W.H. Brockway and Carl Trautman, the splendid violinists, Mr. J.C. Trowbridge, the great basso, E.W. Prescott, the celebrated balladist, Prof. J.L. Gilbert, will preside at the piano forte ... The whole to conclude with "'Way Down South" Sliter, Morris Brothers, Pell, Little Tommy, and company.