Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

367 367 c   (THEATER.) Hollis,Thomas, engraver; after a photograph by Paine. Mr. Ira Aldridge as Mungo, in The Padlock. Engraving, 10 3 / 4 x 6 3 / 4 inches; minor foxing, spot-mounted to a heavy scrapbook leaf along with a short biographical clipping on Aldridge. London: John Tallis, circa 1860s [400/600] Ira Aldridge (1807-1867) was an African-American actor from New York who reached the pinnacle of his profession after moving to London in 1824 to avoid discrimination. He is here depicted in one of his most famous roles, as the lead in Charles Dibdin’s 1768 play The Padlock—in a role originally played by Dibdin in blackface. 368 c   (THEATER.) Broadside playbill for a Maryland performance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin by the Sherry’s New York Theatre touring company. Letterpress broadside, 19 1 / 2 x 7 1 / 4 inches; worn and wrinkled with slight loss on left edge, minor foxing. Hagerstown, MD: Dechert & Co., 17 October 1867 [700/1,000] Theatrical productions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin began just months after its 1852 publication date, bringing abolitionist sentiments to the masses. This one is notable for appearing so close after the Civil War in a border town, at Hagerstown’s Lyceum Hall just a few miles from the Virginia line. THEATER LOTS 367 - 377