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1. Lime Kiln Club

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Ithica Manufacturing Cigar Company label bearing a color lithographed illustration entitled "Lime Kiln Club," by Mensing and Steecher of Rochester, New York. The image of a group of black-face-style stereotypical caricatures of African Americans engaged in a burlesque club meeting is based upon the book, "Brother Gardner's Lime-Kiln Club," about a meeting of the fictional organization set on Fighting Island on the Detroit River.
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1883-01-01T00:00:00Z
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Detroit Historical Society