San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Minstrels Hall

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
12 February 2019

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

01 Mar 1869, 8:00 PM
02 Mar 1869, 8:00 PM
03 Mar 1869, 8:00 PM
04 Mar 1869, 8:00 PM
05 Mar 1869, 8:00 PM
06 Mar 1869, 8:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold;  William H. [minstrel] Bernard;  Charley Backus
2)
Siege of the blondes, The; or, Tis sweet for our country to dye

Citations

1)
Announcement: New-York Times, 28 February 1869, 4.
2)
Advertisement: New-York Times, 01 March 1869, 7.
3)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 01 March 1869, 9.
4)
Announcement: New-York Daily Tribune, 02 March 1869, 5.

No mention of music; condemns the “hair-bleaching process that has lately crept into fashion” as “poisonous to the human system and dangerous to life.”