Minstrel Gallery

The Golliwoggs Bicycle Club - Surrounded by Cannibals

Surrounded by Cannibals! The book charts Golliwogg's adventures with his dutch peg doll friends Peggy, Weg, Meg, Sarah Jane and the dinky little Midget. This is the 2nd title in a 13-book series of Golliwogg books written by mother Bertha and illustrated by daughter Florence. The tale revolved around their travels around the globe on homemade bicycles (and the disasters that befall them!). These books gave the origination of the term golliwogg, now seen as highly un-PC and socially-unacceptable for reasons of supposed racial stereotyping and changing political attitudes, despite the innocent intent of the original creation, set in a time of wildly different social norms'. Date: 1896

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

Nomad musician, Jaipur

Nomadic musician squats at a ceramics shop in Jaipur, India. Over his shoulder he carries an Ektara, a single string gourd musical instrument. He wears a white turban, looks at the camera and smiles Date: 1986

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

1980s, 1986, 80s, Balladeer, Bard, Eighties, Ektar, Ektara, Gopichand, Gopichant, Gopijiantra, Gourd, Iktar, Instrument, Minstrel, Musician, Nomad, Photography, Pots, Resonator, Smile, Street, String, Tribesman, Tun, Tuna, Turban, Wandering, Yaktaro

Dick Whittington. Bookmark advertising The Kings Theatre

Dick Whittington. A souvenir bookmark advertising the pantomime at the King's Theatre in Hammersmith. The clown, who slides up and down, was part of the old pantomime tradition, but the blacked-up minstrel seems less appropriate. BOOK your seats now for the Annual Pantomime. Souvenir with the Managements Compliments. A Production which is really re-MARK-able. Date: 1900s 1890s ?

© The Michael Diamond Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library