No Muss, No Fuss Blackface and 10¢ Ethnic Jokes: Yet Another Illustrated Chapter in History of Race-fueled Representation/Entertainment in America: African Americans Edition {Johnson Smith Catalogue}

A remarkable new blog I am following, Darwinscans, featured a Johnson Smith Catalogue posting that is filled with Americana--the good, the bad, and the very ugly.  Still, for students of American Studies and more, it's a heady semiotic tour of a history that needs to be revealed. The scans on this site are damn near perfect!