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Still Image
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Original Format
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Photographic print
Physical Dimensions
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8x10 inches
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Title
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Cake Walk October 13 1899
Subject
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New Market (Va)
Blackface entertainers
Minstrel shows
Shirley, W.C.
New Market Fire Company (Va)
Description
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Photograph showing a group of black face entertainers. The photograph is labeled "Cake Walk October 13th 1899 Benefit New Market Fire Co."
The Cake Walk was a popular minstrel performance at the time that ridiculed an African American dance of the same name which dated to before the Civil War and which was designed to make fun of the mannerisms of their owners.
The man holding the violin in the foreground is W.C. Shirley, director of the event's orchestra. The other individuals are unidentified.
Creator
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Unknown
Source
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Box 2, Garber Shenandoah County Collection: Brumback, Shirley, Miller and Tidler Families, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Publisher
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Shenandoah County Library
Date
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October 13 1899
Rights
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Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Relation
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Information about the Cake Walk minstrel show is obtained from the Smithsonian Institute and can be found at http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/who-takes-cake-history-cakewalk
Identifier
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19-0131-001
Entertainment
Minstrel
New Market
Shenandoah County
Virginia