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African American Minstrel Performers

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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”).

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.
Leilia Nellings Bird also appears 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

Citation

Hugh Morrison, “African American Minstrel Performers,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed December 1, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/12336.

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