@hollister4ev, these photographs are original. Collodion photography started in the 1850's and could produce very crisp black and white images on sheets of tin or glass. Look at the work of Matthew Brady as the most famous example. The "yellow" quality to which you refer usually shows up on what ...
While a terrible spectacle, it is also important to keep in mind that the minstrel show was a multi-faceted institution that lampooned African Americans, but on another level constituted a tacit admission of the limits and backwardness of the rigid mores of white culture. This was a form of enter...
fantastic stuff guys. I'm a banjo minstrel from Gettysburg, let us know if you ever make it up here! Also, take a look at George Wunderlich's Early American Banjo Gathering held on the Antietam battlefield. It is an exchange of tunes, techniques and Ideas held in an 1840's barn right next to McCl...
what a cannon! Hartel does great work.