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Humpty Dumpty : a pictorial history

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    Image of three panels showing performances of a whiteface clown and an old man in short pants; the four members of the acrobatic troupe the Martinetti Family in a balancing act with one man standing on two upside down chairs while he holds up two female performers and another man stands on his head; and six vignettes of the Bernardo's jugglers doing juggling acts with knives, balancing tops, and fire sticks, including one before an Egyptian pyramid; the poster advertises the Humpty Dumpty Troupe of George Adams.

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  • Tony Denier’s new pantomime troupe Humpty Dumpty. : Charles Leroux, the Roman gyrast

    Tony Denier’s new pantomime troupe Humpty Dumpty. : Charles Leroux, the Roman gyrast

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    Image of a male gymnast, presumably Charles Leroux, doing flips across horizontal bars in an outdoor clearing surrounded by trees while two whiteface clowns watch, including one who presumably is Alfred F. Miaco; vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of two unidentified men in the top corners, presumably Tony Denier and LeRoux.

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  • Tony Denier’s Humpty Dumpty. : Mammoth double specialty company, all star artists

    Tony Denier’s Humpty Dumpty. : Mammoth double specialty company, all star artists

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    Image of a royal court of whiteface clowns with a clown king on a throne labeled "The Master Mime" crowning the kneeling clown Alfred Miaco with a laurel wreath, with a line of clowns, a court jester, two female performers, statues on the wall labeled Denier, Fox, and Grimaldi, and a curtain labeled "Afe Llo Wofi Nfi Ni Tej Est"; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of pantomime troupe manager Tony Denier in formal dress at top left in a laurel leaf frame; the poster advertises Denier's Humpty Dumpty Company.

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