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Note: Sign for Ben Cotton and Sam Shadley's Minstrels next to the music hall. Location: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs

A composite image made from a pair of postcard-size studio photographs. The composite offers a panoramic shot of these various entertainers.

Charles Nelson Cotton (left), Ben Cotton (right), Ben Cotton Jr., (standing)

Note: as sung by Ben Cotton Composer: Winner, Septimus, 1827-1902 Arranger: Oldfield, F. H. H. Attributed to Septimus Winner in: Biographical dictionary of American music by Charles Eugene Claghorn, p. 480.

Notes: As sung by Ben Cotton Composer: Winner, Septimus, 1827-1902 Arranger: Oldfield, F. H. H. Attributed to Septimus Winner in: Biographical dictionary of American music by Charles Eugene Claghorn, p. 480.

Notes As sung by Ben Cotton Attributed to Septimus Winner in: Biographical dictionary of American music by Charles Eugene Claghorn, p. 480.