Griffin Sisters
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The Griffin Sisters, Emma and Mabel Griffin, were American vaudeville performers in the late 1800s and early 1900s who became entrepreneurs and social activists and opened one of the first booking age
Mabel and Emma Griffin, aka The Griffin Sisters, African-American Vaudeville entertainers and entrepreneurs
A woman and family doing laundry in 1900. Emma Griffin began her working life doing other people's laundry for $1.00-$1.50 per week.
1890 Advertisement for Kohl and Middleton's Dime Museum in Chicago
Ad in the Santa Cruz Surf April 24, 1905 for Griffin Sisters with other Vaudeville Acts at the Unique Theater in Santa Cruz CA
Dime museum
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Dime museums were establishments that grew in popularity starting from 1870 that were used to display freak show performers, human anatomy exhibitions, dioramas, oddities, and moral lectures to the ge
"The New Fake Museums" – 1889 cartoon suggesting that some dime museums were little more than scams
1885 advertisement for Robinson's Dime Museum and Theatre
Advertisement for Dime Museum, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 1903