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Carncross and Dixey's Minstrels in their chaste and varied entertainment: plantation scenes, original jokes and bon mots laughable burlesques! Fancy dances and beautiful music! Pronounced by the press and public to be the best band of minstrels in the world! Tickets, 25 cents To be had at the principal hotels, music stores, &c. Doors open at quarter-past 7 o'clock. Performanoe [sic] to commence at 8

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Carncross & Dixey's Minstrels

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J.W. Holden, agent. J.L. Carncross, manager.; "Carncross & Dixey's Minstrels were organized in Philadelphia ... They opened at Sanford's Old Opera House, ... April 14, 1862."--T.A. Brown, Early History of Negro Minstrelsey.; Printed area, including double-rule border, measures 56.1 x 20.3 cm.; Portraits signed: Waitt sc.

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