Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George W. Walker in 'In Dahomey' NPG x46668

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Cavendish Morton

Born in Lawrence, Kansas, Walker began his career as a member of a troupe of black minstrels before he moved to California where he met Bert Williams in San Francisco in 1893. They were employed by the Mid-Winter Exposition in Golden Gate Park to work at an exhibition on Dahomeyan village life, impersonating Africans who were late to arrive. Williams and Walker studied their singing and dancing which led to Williams' In Dahomey, a musical that was 'a satire on the American Colonization Society's... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.