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Scene from "Peep O’Day." Laura Keene's Theatre

Description: Image of an Irish outdoor dancing festival with men and women in historical costumes dancing as couples, and a stone Celtic cross, castle, ruins, bridge and mountains in the background; the poster advertisers the Irish melodrama "Peep o' Day" written by Edmund Falconer and based on a story by Irish writer John Banim.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1862
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000459
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

The black valley in great sensation drama of Peep O’Day

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Image of an outdoor scene near a rock quarry in Ireland with a young woman trying to fight off a man attacking her with a shovel while a man swinging from a tree limb attempts to rescue her, and a man stands on a cliff above near a windmill, with a lake in the background; the poster advertisers the Irish melodrama "Peep o' Day" written by Edmund Falconer, and based on a story by Irish writer John Banim, as performed by actor Mrs. D.P. Bowers (Elizabeth Crocker Bowers) at the New Chesnut Street Theatre (also spelled New Chestnut Street Theatre) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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[Three minstrel scenes of actors, acrobats and dancers]

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Image of three unattached panels with images of blackface actors, acrobats, and dancers performing outdoors and consisting of male and female costumed actors performing a theatrical scene, thirteen identically dressed acrobats in midair doing flips in unison, and six couples dancing.

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Bo Peep Brand

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Image of nursery rhyme character Little Bo Peep holding a staff with orange grove and mountains in background; sheep silhouettes flank girl at left and right; Sunkist yellow ball logo at lower left.

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Union Square Theatre success : a prisoner for life

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Image of a young man and an old man in historical costumes trying to escape a jail cell, with the young man holding open a bag and the older man breaking the blocks of the cell wall with a metal rod; the poster advertises the melodrama "A Prisoner for Life" adapted from a French play by Louis Nathal.

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[Six minstrel performers dancing]

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Image of caricatures of six male and female minstrel show performers dancing as couples against a solid black background.

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Scene from "Peep O’Day." Laura Keene's Theatre

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