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Collection of the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Lexington, Massachusetts. FR 160.001Amateur minstrels show handbill. Dated February 25, 1907. This small handbill publicizes an amateur minstrels show held for the "benefit of the Colored Odd Fellows." Wilbur Miles, a world-renowned entertainer of mixed race descent, headlined the show. Includes an envelope addressed to William Russ of Clarksburg, West Virginia. Russ was also of mixed race descent.
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Russ, William, 1880
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