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Royce and Lansing Musical Comedy Co. : in a basket of chips
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Image of five character vignettes consisting of two male and two female musicians, in Spanish costumes, standing in a row playing mandolins; head-and-shoulder portraits of a whiteface clown and a hobo captioned "The Cherubs," a portrait of a man with a cane and long mustache and a woman wearing a bonnet captioned "Symantha and Algernon"; an old man in an historical costume patting a boy with an ax on the head captioned "The Little Hatchet"; and a pirate with a knife moving towards a girl in a nightgown with her arms raised captioned "The Amateur Villain and Maiden"; with vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of Ray L. Royce, at upper right, and Web Lansing, at lower left, and a decorative border; the poster advertises the musical-comedy show "Basket of Chips" performed by Royce and Lansing's company.
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Chip Carving
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One art instruction book entitled Chip Carving, by Harris W. Moore, published by Manual Arts Press, Peoria, Illinois, copyright 1922. This book, 46 pages in length with 19 photographic and engraved plates, provides a very brief introduction to the history of chip carving. It is primarily instructional with visual examples of chip carving projects, and text. Some of the projects included are: a toothpick holder, a checker board, a pipe rack, a picture frame and a waste basket. The front cover is decorated with a chip carving pattern; the inside of the front cover and both sides of the back cover are blank. "1.50" (price) is written in ms. on the inside of the front cover.
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The Iroquois; or, The Canadian Basket Maker. Melodrama, 2 acts. From John O'Keeffe, The Basket Maker
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