African American Minstrel Performers
Files
Dublin Core
Title
African American Minstrel Performers
Subject
Mt. Zion Methodist Church (Woodstock Va)
Woodstock (Va)
Polk, William H. (1891-1972)
African American Churches-Virginia-Woodstock
Theater-Virginia-Woodstock
Scott, Preston Sr. (1886-1975)
McAfee, Lewis (1904-1968)
McAfee, Elsie F. Pye (1909-1994)
Minstrel shows - Virginia - Woodstock
Butcher, Charles (1890-1960)
Spinner, George Edward “Ned” (1876-1948)
Bird, Lelia Nellings (1888-1942)
Smith, Frank J. (1892-?)
McAfee, Andrew (1896-1935)
Heatley, Virginia “Ginny” McGruder (1892-1986)
Jackson, William Robert (1895-1987)
Houston, William H. “Willie” (1881-?)
McAfee, Roy W. Sr. (1891-1966)
Tolliver, Theodore Henson (1896-1961)
Description
1921 photograph showing African American musicians and performers in costume and blackface for a production of “Virginia Minstrels” that benefited Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Woodstock Virginia.
Identified in the photograph are:
Front row, left to right:
Charles Butcher (Starring as “Bones”), George Edward "Ned" Spinner, Lelia Bird, Frank Smith, and Andrew McAfee (starring as “Slim”).
Second row, left to right:
Preston Scott Sr. (staring as “Snowball”), Elsie Pye McAfee, Virginia "Ginny" McGruder Heatly, William Jackson, Rev. William H. Polk (church minister)
Third row:
Unidentified violinist, William "Willie" Houston, Roy McAfee Sr., Harry or Lewis McAfee, Theodore Tolliver Sr. (starring as “Shine Charlie”).
Identified in the photograph are:
Front row, left to right:
Charles Butcher (Starring as “Bones”), George Edward "Ned" Spinner, Lelia Bird, Frank Smith, and Andrew McAfee (starring as “Slim”).
Second row, left to right:
Preston Scott Sr. (staring as “Snowball”), Elsie Pye McAfee, Virginia "Ginny" McGruder Heatly, William Jackson, Rev. William H. Polk (church minister)
Third row:
Unidentified violinist, William "Willie" Houston, Roy McAfee Sr., Harry or Lewis McAfee, Theodore Tolliver Sr. (starring as “Shine Charlie”).
Creator
Hugh Morrison
Source
Series II: Morrison Photographs, George William Smith Collection, Truban Archives, Shenandoah County Library, Edinburg, Virginia.
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
Undated
Contributor
Scanned by Shenandoah County Historical Society, DS 0279
Additional information on this production available at https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=SH19210218.1.3&srpos=9&e=--1920---1922--en-20-SH-1--txt-txIN-Colored-------
Identified based on a August 19, 1982 photograph published in the Shenandoah Valley Herald with identifications by George (Buck) Smith of Woodstock Virginia.
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC)
Relation
Lewis McAfee appears in Morrison Studio Collection photos 000889, 002148, 003981, 012507, and 012508.
William H. Polk appears in Morrison Studio Collection 000327, 003965, and 007634.
The unidentified woman pictured in the middle of the first row with a head band is pictured in Morrison Studio Collection image 003980. That photograph may have been take at the same time as this one.
Elsie F. Pye McAfee appears in Morrison Studio Collection image 003981.
Identifier
18-0507-0279
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photograph
Physical Dimensions
8x10 inch print
Collection
Citation
Hugh Morrison, “African American Minstrel Performers,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed April 26, 2024, http://archives.countylib.org/items/show/12336.
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