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Adventures in Theater History

May 13, 1911: The company of Dumont's Minstrels pose on the steps of the 11th Street Opera House in Philadelphia.

A onetime church, the building had been a highly popular minstrel theatre for many decades, but now it was being demolished to make room for a Horn & Hardart's automat.

Our episode about the long history of minstrelsy in Philadelphia theater can be found here:
aithpodcast.com/the-last-minst