DE VALLEY AN' DE SHADDER. Miss Eunice Snow, Assisted by Bianca Holley, Soprano, and Dorothy Sheldon, Violin Virtuoso ... Madison Opera House, Thursday, February 10 ... Admission 20 and 30 cents by Snow, Eunice and others - 1890
by Snow, Eunice and others
DE VALLEY AN' DE SHADDER. Miss Eunice Snow, Assisted by Bianca Holley, Soprano, and Dorothy Sheldon, Violin Virtuoso ... Madison Opera House, Thursday, February 10 ... Admission 20 and 30 cents
by Snow, Eunice and others
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Oneida, New York: Ryan, the Quick Printer, 1890. Original document. Very Good. (4)pp. Includes a synopsis of the four acts, set in a log hut in the village of Black Ankle. Dialogue in stereotypical black dialect. "Happy negroes congregating ... The wayward reckless wife gambling with strange men ... She follows Ben into the swamp ... The little brown baby falls to the care of its grand-mammy ... Mandy's journey, &c., &c. Includes an ad for Madison House, Madison, N.Y. The back page contains comments of the press. Printed in black ink on lavender stock; short tears closed on verso with archival tissue. 9.5" x 6" [Unrecorded by WorldCat.] "De Valley an' de Shadder" is the title of a story by Harry Stillwell Edwards in his "Two Runaways and Other Stories," published in 1889 (see Wright, American Fiction, III:1712).
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- Book Condition Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition Original document
- Publisher Ryan, the Quick Printer
- Place of Publication Oneida, New York
- Date Published 1890
- Keywords african american; black dialect; stereotypes; plays; operettas