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Grandpa Monnell in Blackface

Posted by Nancy Monnell on October 11, 2009 at 3:49pm

My paternal grandfather (George Henry Monnell) played in vaudeville as an End Man and did a "soft shoe" and "tap dance" He is shown here in "blackface" (makeup used back then) Taken in the early 1900's believed to be in Detroit Michigan.

Detroit, Michigan, Monnell, vaudeville

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