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1899 poster of Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones
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1899 poster of Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones

1899 poster of Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones

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Poster: "The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones , The Greatest Singer of her Race". Color lithograph ; sheet 77 x 50 cm. Restorationist's Note : I hate the text on this. Hits some of the worst Victorian ways of writing about other races than white. I did this restoration for Jones, not the copyist writing about her. Presumably based off of the set of pho

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Poster: "The Black Patti, Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones , The Greatest Singer of her Race". Color lithograph ; sheet 77 x 50 cm. Restorationist's Note : I hate the text on this. Hits some of the worst Victorian ways of writing about other races than white. I did this restoration for Jones, not the copyist writing about her. Presumably based off of the set of photographs by Napoleon Sarony of her in 1895: Compare File:Napoleon Sarony - photograph of Sissieretta Jones - Original.jpg

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