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Thomas Baker Transformation polka. From The Black Crook. New York: Wm. A. Pond & Co., 1867. The Black Crook, the first American blockbuster musical, was a four hour extravaganza, born of the combination of a stranded French ballet company with a gothic melodrama. Color lithograph of Mlle. Bonfanti by Major & Knapp, New York. |
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