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: Entrant in Ramsgate Battle of Flowers, Kent


Entrant in Ramsgate Battle of Flowers, Kent

One of the entrants in the Ramsgate Battle of Flowers event which was staged in the town for many years, showing a decorated bicycle with a black-faced man. Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used in minstrel shows, and later vaudeville, in which performers create a stereotyped caricature of a black person

Picture No
10573844
Media ID
47550096
Size
2646px x 2271px (3.1MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library/The Pete Frost Collection
Source
Original photograph from Newspaper Illustrations Ltd, Copyright expired
Date
circa 1911

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Blackface Competitor Entrant Entrants Faced Minstrel Ramsgate Stereotype Stereotyped Vaudeville


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