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John Thompson and his star troupe of comic characters. : In "around the world"
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John Thompson and his star troupe of comic characters. : In "around the world."
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Image of a train platform with nine caricatured men and women including a Chinese immigrant with his back turned, a female impersonator, and a man with a monkey sitting on a box on his back, standing at center with luggage and trunks and a crowd of passengers watching from a railroad train car labeled "Drawing Room Car"; with a vignette head-and-shoulders portrait of comedian and character actor John Thompson at upper left in an oval leaf frame; the poster advertises the comedic show "Around the World" (also known as "Around the World in Eighty Minutes").
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John E. Owens in his famous pathetic & comic characters
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Image of a central vignette of a family sitting in a dining room on a snowy evening while a man lies dead on the ground next to a gun outside and a couple embraces in a barn, captioned "Dot, or the cricket on the hearth," with a top center vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of English-American comedic actor John Owens in formal dress, seven vignettes of portraits of Owens dressed as characters, captioned "Perkyn Middlewick the butterman," "Joshua Butterby," "Paul Pry," "John Unit," Major Wellington de Boots," Solon Shingle," and Dr. Pangloss, L.L.D. & A.S.S.," and six additional smaller vignettes of dramatic scenes.
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Sells Brothers' enormous united shows : 4 horse chariot race
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Image of a chariot race around a track in a tented circus arena, with two female drivers each driving teams of four horses in the foreground, followed by a third chariot driven by a male driver; small vignette with group head-and-shoulders portrait presumably of three Sells brothers Ephraim Sells, Peter Sells, and Lewis Sells at upper left.
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Subseries B. Minstrel (large size)
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This subseries contains 61 large-size items that pertain to minstrel show entertainment primarily in the United States from the 1850s to the 1920s. The majority of items consist of lithographic posters related to minstrel dance, comedic, and musical acts, often with caricatured depictions of African Americans; blackface entertainers both in costume and in formal dress; and female minstrels.
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Grand four days excursion. The cheapest and grandest yet! : Excursionists will leave Central Village depot on the 23d day of July, 1851
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Image of a broadside advertising a stagecoach and boat trip from the Central Village depot in Connecticut with a center wood-engraved image of a carriage with passengers driven by two horses and a driver saying, "Bound to Wood's Saw-Mill."
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The star boarder : imitations of "Sousa" the march king in his latest poses by Charles H. Boyle
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Image of a central head-and-shoulders portrait of comedian Charles Boyle surrounded by seven full-length portraits of Boyle dressed in a military-style marching band leader's costume with a baton and music stand impersonating the American composer and conductor John Philip Sousa; the poster advertises the farce comedy "The Star-Boarder."
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