This tapestry is on display at the Medier Homestead Museum in Wappingers Falls, Dutchess County. This picture was painted depicting a minstrel show from the 1840’s. This tapestry was founded in the Wappingers Falls area in a chest. The banner shows figures similar to 1840s sheet music that can be found in the Library of Congress. The minstrel show is one of the earliest forms of American entertainment and it peaked after the Civil War and remained popular into the 1900s. These shows included the performances of black musicians who sang, with banjos, in the city streets.
Alexis Sabatelle 