The broadside credits Bryant's Minstrels, one of the most popular American blackface troupes and the first performers (1859) of Daniel D. Emmett's "I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land.".

The troupe was in business between 1857 and 1882.

There were also Balmoral capes. The styles were first mentioned under the name "Balmoral" in the U.K. and New York in the middle and late 1850s.