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Introductory
The development of black-face
The first part
Songs the minstrels taught us
The reincarnation of jokes
The second part
A working model
Minstrel producing centers
Some of the road shows
Famous teams of minstrelsy
"Dixie" and other exhibits
Charcoal sketches
Epilogue.

Songs included in their entirety: The big sun flower
Old Dan Tucker
Root, hog, or die
Wake Nicodemus
Dandy Jim of Caroline
Josiphus Orange Blossom
Hard times come again no more
I hope I don't intrude
Stop dat knocking at my door
Going to the silver wedding
When you and I were young, Maggie
"When you hear dem a bells go ding, ling, ling ..."
Ring dat golden bell
Arkansas traveler
"When the bell in the lighthouse rings ding dong ..."
Aura Lee / arranged by Sigmund Spaeth
Darling Nelly Gray
Nancy Fat
Cake walk
"Go to sleep, my little pickaninny ..."
Oh! Susanna
Box and Cox [play]
De blue tail fly
Jim Crow's polka
The other side of Jordan
Walk in the parlour
Sally, come up!
A life by de galley fire
The fine old colored gentleman
De eel catcher's glee
A lock of my mother's hair
Found dead in the snow
Had I the wings of a fairy gay
Nobody / words by Alex Rogers ; music by Bert A. Williams.

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