The Lykens Register of September 13, 1900, touted the upcoming Gratz Fair entertainment featuring “dark and melodius” minstrels in black-face and welcomed attendees who were not afraid to “die laughing.” […]
In 1932, the Athletic Association of the Berrysburg High School, Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, presented a racist, black-face program that they referred to as a “comedy.” It featured several skits, […]
A 1932 article announcing a new fund raiser for the senior class of the Lykens Valley Vocational School told of a fund raiser held the previous week by the school’s […]
The Lykens Standard of February 19, 1970, published a news story that indicated that a black-face performer, Robert “Bobby” Snyder, originally from Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, had joined a traveling […]
An undated photograph of a picnic of Pine Grove area residents that was held at Berger’s Ball Field in Pleasant Valley, near Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. One respondent who […]
A 1958 photograph of the cast of the senior play of the Shamokin Catholic High School, Shamokin, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. The play was “You Can’t Take it With You.” Two […]
A photograph taken around 1906 of a group of men at the Mansion House Pool Room, Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Identified in the photo: Otis Snyder; Lincoln Bonawitz; Carson […]
In January 1937, the Lykens Valley Vocational School at Berrysburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, featured a black-face program by a group known as the Five Nit Wits, who were a staple […]