San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
17 June 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

11 Jan 1875, Evening
12 Jan 1875, Evening
13 Jan 1875, Evening
14 Jan 1875, Evening
15 Jan 1875, Evening
16 Jan 1875, Evening
16 Jan 1875, 2:00 PM

Performers and/or Works Performed

1)
LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  San Francisco Minstrels;  Mackin and Wilson [song and dance];  Billy Birch [minstrel];  David S. Wambold;  Charley Backus;  Add Ryman
2)
"Take this letter to my mother"
Composer(s): Hays
Participants:  David S. Wambold
3)
"I thought you was"
Composer(s): Unknown composer
Participants:  Mackin and Wilson [song and dance]
4)
New Year's calls, [minstrel]
aka New Year's call; New Year's greetings
5)
Too late for the train
6)
Laughing gas
aka Dr. Colton's laughing gas
7)
Solo on an oyster can

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 10 January 1875, 9.
2)
Review: New York Clipper, 23 January 1875, 342.

“…they have done a fair business…”