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Williams & Walker Ad

In this full-page ad in The Freeman, An Illustrated Colored Newspaper from December 1899, Williams and Walker juxtaposed their images as dignified, professional, successful men with the naming of their act in quotation marks: “The Two Real Coons.”

Source: The Freeman, An Illustrated Colored Newspaper, December 30, 1899, p. 11.

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