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salvation army blackface minstrel show
Members of a Salvation Army team put on a blackface minstrel show in Stephen, Minnesota, in January and February of 1887. -
billy van
Billy Van, the monologue comedian, 1900.In the early 1900s, he was a well-known American entertainer. He became a star in minstrel shows, vaudeville, burlesque, the New York theater, and cinema over time. He was a well-known dairy farmer and agriculturist under a different name. He was also a soap product manufacturer at the time. He rebuilt himself as a nationally known motivational speaker and a Yankee goodwill ambassador later in his career. -
billy van
They were also well-known vaudeville and variety show acts of the time. He owned a company called Billy B. Van and The Beaumont Sisters Co. for a time. They performed in a variety show at the Manhattan Opera House in 1910, among with the Dunlap's Educated Horse and the Five Juggling Jewels . billy Van was married to Nellie, according to one source.In December 2001 he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, from which he died on January 8, 2003 at the age of 68at Sunnybrook Hospital. -
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bert williams
A photograph of the African American minstrel actor Bert Williams, Williams was born on November 12,1874, in Nassau,Bahamas, to his dad Frederick Williams Jr. and his mom Julia. Bert and his parents moved to Florida in the United States permanently when he was 11 years old. In 1892, he graduated from Riverside High School in Riverside, California, with his family. He joined many West Coast minstrel performances as a teenager in 1893 including Martin and Selig's Mastodon Minstrels -
bert williams
in San Francisco, where he met with his then professional partner, George Walker. bert Williams needed to reestablish himself as a solo act after 16 years as half of a duo after his friend passed away. He returned to Hammerstein's Victoria Theater and the high-end vaudeville circuit in May 1909. His new act included many songs, dialect humorous monologues, and a final dance. He got a lot of attention and a lot of money, but the White Rats of America, a Few had thought he was ill -
The Five Star Minstrel Book
The cover of The Five Star Minstrel Book (Northwestern Press, 1938), which is meant to act as a guide for anyone wanting to organize a blackface minstrel show. -
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