Rare & Important Callender's Colored Minstrels Consolidated Spectacular Lithograph Poster, 19th century, Forbes Co., Boston, N.Y., Worcester Theatre date strip remnant on bottom, minor crinkle on left side, ht. 29, wd. 21. By the 1870s there were black minstrels as well as whites in blackface makeup, and in 1876 Haverly set up a colored" troupe with Tom Maguire in Nevada. In 1878 he went into partnership with Charles Callender to run the Georgia Colored Minstrels. With a show bigger than most, Haverly and Callender introduced religious music and attracted an African-American audience. Laying the groundwork for generations of show-business stereotypes of African Americans, Haverly advertised his company as "The darky as he is at home, darky life in the cornfield, canebrake, barnyard, and on the levee and flatboat." As Haverly's shows and reputation grew, so did the tales of his debacles--eventually he was supposed to have lost as many as seven fortunes. By 1877 he was reportedly $104,000 in debt. Still, Haverly bought out Callender and increased the size of the company enormously. (From American National Biography, published by Oxford University)"