| Collection | Max Tyler Music Hall Collection |
| Description | Research file compiled by Max Tyler about the performer and blackface minstrel G.H. Chirgwin, also known as the "the White-Eyed Kaffir" due to his stage makeup (b.1854, d.1922). Containing:
Photocopy of songsheet 'A good old London town girl', written and composed by Charles Osborne, sung by GH. Chirgwin.
Photocopy of songsheet 'My suburban girl, or, Trixie from Turnham Green', written, composed and sung Clara Chirgwin, "the White-Eyed Kaffir's brown-eyed daughter".
Photocopy of songsheet 'Beware! Beware!', written by Charles Osborne, composed by H.W. Petrie, sung by GH. Chirgwin.
Photocopy of a postcard (front and reverse) of 'G.H. Chirgwin's "Happy Valley" concert party, Southend-on-sea, 1908'. Featuring P. Bacon, F. Anderson, C.Osbourne, Miss F.Desmond, Miss B.Varley, B.Dansie, C.Wood, H.Rose. Addressed to a Dottie White.
Photocopy of sheet music and lyrics for 'All Scotch', written and composed by Charles Osbourne, sung by G.H. Chirgwin.
Printed verse titled 'Chirgwin's eel pie warehouse'. Printed in red ink on tissue paper.
Printed copy of a photograph of G.H. Chirgwin's uncle Thomas.
Printed email correspondence between Max Tyler and Bill Chirgwin. |
| Admin history | Transferred to the University of Kent in May 2018. |