CDV studio portrait of blackface minstrel George Swayne (Swaine/Swain) Buckley (1829-1879). Case & Getchell: Boston, n.d., circa 1861-1865. Photographer's 299 1/2 Washington St. imprint on verso. A founding member of the family minstrelsy troupe Buckley's Serenaders, originally New Orleans Minstrels, one of the most popular entertainment companies in the United States from the mid-1850s and 1860s. Consisting of the patriarch James Buckley and three brothers, Bishop, Fred, and George Swain who was the "light and eccentric comedian" and also played banjo.
CDV studio portrait of blackface minstrel George Swayne (Swaine/Swain) Buckley (1829-1879). Case & Getchell: Boston, n.d., circa 1861-1865. Photographer's 299 1/2 Washington St. imprint on verso. A founding member of the family minstrelsy troupe Buckley's Serenaders, originally New Orleans Minstrels, one of the most popular entertainment companies in the United States from the mid-1850s and 1860s. Consisting of the patriarch James Buckley and three brothers, Bishop, Fred, and George Swain who was the "light and eccentric comedian" and also played banjo.
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