This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/30/2019
Minstrel Show / Riverboat Gambling Stock Poster. Newport, Kentucky: Donaldson Litho, ca. 1930s. Color lithograph racially stereotypical stock poster showing two unwitting officers spying on a craps game held on a riverboat dock. The kingpin of the game is dressed in fine clothes and jewelry and holds a wad of cash, with a bottle of whiskey jutting from his coat pocket. 42 x 28”. Linen backed. Lower left corner torn with crude restoration; other scattered discolorations and creasing, but main image vibrant. B.