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• The Minstrel Encyclopedia (Boston: W. H. Baker Co., 1921), by Walter Ben Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bones: His Anecdotes and Goaks (London: C. H. Clarke, ca. 1870), by G. W. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro Minstrels: A Complete Guide to Negro Minstrelsy, Containing Recitations, Jokes, Crossfires, Conundrums, Riddles, Stump Speeches, Ragtime and Sentimental Songs, Etc., Including Hints on Organizing and Successfully Presenting a Performance (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1902), by Jack Haverly (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• New Minstrel and Black Face Joke Book, by Leading Footlight Favorites: The Best Monologues, Endmen's Gags, Jokes, Etc. As Delivered by the Best Known Fun Makers on the Minstrel and Vaudeville Stage (cover title "Funny Stories"; inner running title "New Minstrel Joke Book"; Baltimore: I. and M. Ottenheimer, c1907) (page images at Harvard)
• The Witmark Amateur Minstrel Guide and Burnt Cork Encyclopedia (revised edition, c1905), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minstrelsy (San Francisco Theatre Research v15, monograph 25; 1939), ed. by Lawrence Estavan
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• The Minstrel Guide and Joke Book (Baltimore: I. and M. Ottenhiemer, c1912), ed. by Paul E. Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Up-to-Date Minstrel Jokes: A Collection of the Latest and Most Popular Jokes, Talks, Stump-Speeches, Conundrums and Monologues for Amateur Minstrels, Many of Which Have Never Before Appeared in Print; Also, a Special Department of Female Minstrel Jokes (with 4 appended farces; Boston: Up-to-Date Pub. Co., c1902), ed. by Herman Henry Wheeler, contrib. by George H. Coes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro sketches, end-men's gags and conundrums. (Chicago, Regan Pub. Corp., 1924 [c1889]), by William De Vere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hooley's opera house songster : containing a choice collection of sentimental, comic, and Ethiopian songs /, by Dance and Music Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Theater and Hooley's Minstrels. the (page images at HathiTrust)
• George Christy's essence of old Kentucky : containing a choice collection of new and popular songs, interludes, dialogues, funny speeches, darkey jokes and plantation wit / (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1862]), by George Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dick's stump speeches and minstrel jokes : containing an immense collection of original and selected negro acts and farces, eccentric sketches, stump speeches, funny conversations, burlesque sermons and lectures, end men's jokes, Bones' gags and Tambo's witticisms; especially adapted for first class minstrel entertainments / (New York : Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation, c1889), by William B. Dick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Coon jokes and felicitations / (Cleveland, Ohio : Arthur Westbrook, [1910?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The coming man: an Ethiopian sketch in two scenes / (New York : Dramatic Pub. Co., c1877), by Charles White and A. J. Leavitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christy's Panorama songster : containing the songs as sung by the Christy, Campbell, Pierce's minstrels, and Sable brothers. (New York : W. H. Murphy, [185-?]), by Edwin Pearce Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cash money : a minstrel spree for three / by Wade Stratton. (Chicago : T. S. Denison & Co., 1921), by Wade Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barlow Bros. & Frost's Minstrels, under the management of Abe. Spitz ... [electronic resource]. ([S.l. : s.n., 18--?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanics' Institute [electronic resource] : Whiting's minstrels from New York : first tour through the British pro[vinces] Wednesday evening, August 5, 1863. ([S.l. : s.n., 18--?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanics' Institute Hall, Tuesday evening, May 21 [electronic resource] : fifth night of this unrivalled troupe of artistes pronounced by the press and public ... Rumsey and Newcomb's Minstrels .. ([Saint John, N.B.? : s.n., 18--?]), by Mechanics' Institute of Saint John (N.B.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanics' Institute, Burnham & Phillips' San Francisco minstrels [electronic resource] : this evening programme .. ([S.l. : s.n., 18--?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christy's new songster and black joker : containing all the most popular and original songs, choruses, stump speeches, witticisms, jokes, conundrums, etc., etc., as sung and delivered by the world-renowned Christy's Minstrels at their opera houses / (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, c1868), by William E. Christy, E. Byron Christy, and Christy's Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenir programme, Thanksgiving, '94 [electronic resource] : the Victoria Amateur Minstrels : Victoria Theatre, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Thursday matinée, November 21th and 22nd., 1894. ([Victoria, B.C.? : s.n., 1894?]), by Victoria Amateur Minstrels (B.C.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [electronic resource] : Tuesday, Feb. 18th Al. G. Field's Minstrels and Utopia. ([London, Ont.? : s.n., 1896?]), by Ont.) Grand Opera House (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grand Opera House, London, Ont., programme [electronic resource] : Wednesday, Nov. 27 Guy Bros. Minstrels. ([London, Ont.? : s.n., 1896?]), by Ont.) Grand Opera House (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Minstrel festival [electronic resource] : the Victoria Amateur Minstrels, J.M. Finn, director, Victoria Theatre, Friday and Saturday evenings, May 8th and 9th, 1896. ([Victoria, B.C.? : s.n., 1896?]), by Victoria Amateur Minstrels (B.C.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christy's panorama songster : containing the songs as sung / (New York : William H. Murphy, [18--?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to put on a minstrel show / (Chicago : Max Stein Publishing House, c1921), by Harold Rossiter and Henry. Clog dancing made easy Ticker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burnt cork no. 2 : a collection of minstrel gags, stories, monologs, etc. / (New York : M. Witmark & Sons, 1911), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• The minstrel guide and joke book : a comprehensive guide to the organization and conducting of a minstrel show, and how to make up, containing a diversified collection of the latest mirth-creating jokes, gags, cross-fire and monologues passed over the footlights by the most celebrated artists in burnt cork on the American stage / (Baltimore : I. & M. Ottenheimer, [191-?]), by Paul E. Lowe (page images at HathiTrust)
• A bundle of burnt cork comedy : original cross-fire conversations, gags, retorts, minstrel monologues and stump speeches / (Minneapolis, Minn. : T.S. Denison & Co., c1905), by Harry L. Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bones, his gags and stump speeches : Nigger and Dutch stories and dialogues, "broken china" dialect pieces, and other conundrums. (New York : Wehman Bros., c1879), by Bobby Newcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burnt cork jokes. (Cleveland [Ohio] : Arthur Westbrook Co., [ca. 1910]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• New minstrel jokes and end men's gags. (Cleveland [Ohio] : Arthur Westbrook Co., c1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old cabin home minstrels : a minstrel entertainment in three acts made up of old plantation songs, for the use of church, lodge, club, school, or community choruses / (Dayton, Ohio : Lorenz Pub. Co., c1921), by Carrie B. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vagabond adventures. (Boston, Fields, Osgood, 1870), by Ralph Keeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Odd people I have met / ([S.l. : s.n., 191-?]), by Lew Parker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How Sister Paxey got her child baptized : an Ethiopian farce in one scene / (Clyde, Ohio : A.D. Ames, ©1880), by J. S. R. Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wax works at play / (Chicago : T.S. Denison, c1894), by Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fighting for the union : an Ethiopian farce : performed by Griffin & Christy's minstrels / (New York : Happy Hours Company, No. 1 Chambers Street, [187-?]), by G. W. H. Griffin, Happy Hours Company, and Griffin & Christy's Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Negro wit and humor : also containing folk lore, folk songs, race peculiarities, race history / (Louisville, Kentucky : Harmon Publishing Company, 1914), by Marion F. Harmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A symphony in black and white [performed by the] Lady Minstrels at Baird's. Wednesday Evening, Feb. 6, 1895. ([n.p., 1895?]), by Lansing Industrial Aid Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The kink in Kizzie's wedding : a mock Negro wedding / (Dayton, Ohio : Paine Pub. Co., c1921), by Mary Bonham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frills and frolics : a musicale melange for ladies minstrels ; comedy de luxe ; minstrels a la mode / (Boston : Walter H. Baker, 1921), by Walter Ben Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sham doctor : a negro farce; in one act and three scenes / (New York: F.A. Brady, [1856]), by Charles White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hard times : a negro extravaganza - one scene / (New York : De Witt Pub. House, 1874), by Daniel Decatur Emmett and Charles White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Badly sold : a Negro act in two scenes / (Boston : W. H. Baker, 1893), by George H Coes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The midnight intruder : an Ethiopian farce / (Chicago : Dramatic Pub. Co., ♭1876), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gallus Jake : an Ethiopian comicality in one scene. (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, ©1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Squire for a day : a Negro sketch / (New York : Robert M. DeWitt, ♭1875), by A. J. Leavitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fowl deeds : a negro comedy / (Franklin, OH : Eldridge Entertainment House, c1920), by Jenny Wren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Up-to-date minstrel jokes : a collection of popular jokes, talks, stump-speeches, conundrums, and monologues for amateur minstrels and a special department of female minstrel jokes, stump-speeches and monologues arranged especially for "Lady Minstrels" / (Boston : W.H. Baker, c1902), by Herman H. Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The minstrel encyclopedia, (Boston, Walter H. Baker company, 1921), by Walter Ben Hare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Irishman and the coon : a vaudeville act / (Philadelphia : The Penn Pub. Co., 1922), by Harry L. Newton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The darkey drama : a collection of approved Ethiopian acts, scenes, interludes, etc., etc. ... Part first / (London : Samuel French ; New York : Samuel French & Son, [1867?]), by Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pickles and tickles; a Negro farce in one act, for six male characters ... (New York, Dick & Fitzgerald, ©1901), by Thomas Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The water-melon cure : knock-about farce in one act / (Chicago : Dramatic Pub. Co., ©1912), by C. Walcott Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• A lucky job; a Negro farce, (Chicago, Dramatic Pub. Co., ©1874), by Charles White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The black brigands : a musical burlesque, in one scene / (New York : De Witt, Publisher, c1884), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Obeying orders : Ethiopian military sketch in one scene / (Chicago : Dramatic Pub. Co., ©1874), by Charles White and John Arnold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colored senators : an Ethiopian burlesque, in one scene / (Clyde, Ohio : A.D. Ames, ©1887), by Bert Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chops, an Ethiopian farce, in one act, (Clyde, O., A.D. Ames, 1886), by G. Shackell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Othello: a burlesque, (New York, Happy Hours Co., [1879?]), by William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Black vs white, or, the Nigger and Yankee : an original farce in one act /, by George S. Vautrot and William H. Crawford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Don't get weary, or, Johnny you've been a bad boy : musical sketch in one act., by James V. Hatch and Camille Billops (page images at HathiTrust)
• The business end of a minstrel show /, by Albert Carlton, Carter Godwin Woodson, Frank Dumont, and former owner. GEU Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hamlet the dainty : an Ethiopian burlesque on Shakespeare's Hamlet : performed by Griffin & Christy's minstrels /, by G. W. H. Griffin, James V. Hatch, and Camille Billops, contrib. by Happy Hours Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Making of a minstrel show; a help-u book for amateurs. (Franklin, Ohio : Eldridge entertainment house, c1920), by Seymour S. Tibbals (page images at HathiTrust)
• Absent minded : a genteel farce, ... in one act, to which are added a description of the costumes - cast of the characters - entrances and exits - relative positions of the performers on the stage, and the whole of the stage business / (Chicago : Dramatic Publishing Company, c1881), by Frank Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• De black magician or The wonderful beaver, an ethiopian comicality in one scene ... (New York, Robert M. De Witt, 1876), by Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• New minstrel and black face joke book : the best monologues, endmen's gags, jokes, etc. as delivered by the best known fun makers on the minstrel and vaudeville stage / (Baltimore : I. & M. Ottenheimer, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baker's Darkey plays : a collection of short, humorous plays in black face suitable for negro minstrel entertainments. (Boston : W. H. Baker & Co., 1915), by George H. Coes, E. Man about town Bowers, F. E. Hiland, Walter H. Baker & Co, and Mass.) Walter H. Baker & Co. (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ebony flats and black sharps : a nonsensical black-face melange in one act and various situations / (Boston : W.H. Baker, c1897), by George W. Goode (page images at HathiTrust)
• Monarchs of minstrelsy, from "Daddy" Rice to date, (New York city, N.Y. : Kenny publishing company, [c1911]), by Edward Le Roy Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• In for it, or, Uncle Tony's mistake: an Ethiopian farce in one act / (Clyde, Ohio : Ames, c1893), by Dave E. Allyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A rustic minstrel show : an entertainment in one act / (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, c1912), by Willis Newton Bugbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Othello;" : a burlesque, / (New York : Happy Hours Company, No. 1 Chambers Street, [188-?]), by G. W. H. Griffin, Happy Hours Co, N. Orr & Co, and Griffin & Christy's Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
• 16,000 years ago: an Ethiopian act as performed by Buckley's Serenaders. (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1870?]), by Henry Llewellyn Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meeting of the Darktown Literary Society. A black-face "Debate" with plenty of action. (Franklin, Ohio, Eldridge Entertainment House, c1922), by Edward B. Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christy's panorama songster : (New York : W.H. Murphy, [1840?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mohawk minstrels' "nigger" dramas, dialogues, and drolleries, (London, Francis Bros. & Day, [1878]), by Charles Townley and Mohawk Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mischievous nigger : a negro farce, in one act and one scene. (New York : F. A. Brandy, [1856]), by Charles White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wehman's minstrel sketches, conundrums, and jokes. (New York : H. J. Wehman, c1890) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete minstrel guide, containing gags, jokes, parodies, speeches, farces, and full directions for a complete minstrel show, (Chicago, The Dramatic Pub. Co., 1901), by William Courtright (page images at HathiTrust)
• The St. James Christy Minstrels' Christmas annual / (London : Printed by J. E. Adlard, 1868), by Alfred Crowquill, England) St. James Hall (London, and Christy Minstrels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vagabond Adventures, by Ralph Keeler (Gutenberg ebook)

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