San Francisco Minstrels

Event Information

Venue(s):
San Francisco Opera House

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
4 August 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

19 Oct 1874, Evening
20 Oct 1874, Evening
21 Oct 1874, Evening
22 Oct 1874, Evening
23 Oct 1874, Evening
24 Oct 1874, Evening
24 Oct 1874, 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; Carl [minstrel] Rudolph; Foley McKeever [Ethiopian vocalist] Ricardo

2)

"Darling little Daisy"

Composer(s): Unknown composer

Participants: David S. Wambold

3)

"We sat by the river"

aka You and I

Composer(s): Barnard

Text Author: Barnard

Participants: Carl [minstrel] Rudolph

4)

5)

Married life, [burlesque]

6)

Bad night's rest

7)

Education lecture

Participants: Add Ryman

8)

aka Life uptown; Life up town

Citations

1)

Advertisement: New York Herald, 18 October 1874, 11.

2)

Review: New York Clipper, 31 October 1874, 246.

Alterations in the week’s program. “A good business has been done, and it would appear that that the success of the new house has been firmly established.”