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Constable Hook Company

Description: Image of an outdoor scene with people in historical costumes running about a courtyard while flames come out of burning building, with a well in the background, and a man trying to trap another man in a wooden barrel, an old woman fighting with a man on the ground and about to hit him with a cane, and a couple embracing.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1880
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000977
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

The comedy drama the new Fogg’s ferry by Chas E. Callahan

Visual Materials

Image of a young man trying to help a disheveled young woman in rumpled clothing who kneels on a park lawn, while another woman, wearing a hat decorated with a bird, clenches her fist as if to hit them; the poster advertises the comedic melodrama "New Fogg's Ferry" written by Charles Callahan, presumably as an updated version of his 1882 play "Fogg's Ferry."

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The Madison Square Theatre Company : Hazel Kirke

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Image of six vignettes of theatrical scenes and characters consisting of a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, captioned "Hazel," at top left; a parlor scene with an older man sleepwalking past a kneeling young woman captioned, "Seen & Unseen," at center left; a man with his arms folded, captioned "Squire Rodney," at lower left; a couple standing and embracing with the man smoking two cigarettes, captioned "May all our sorrows end like this 'in smoke,'" at lower left; a young man sitting and playing a penny whistle, captioned "Met," at bottom left; and a young woman wearing an apron and standing with a young man, with a basket of laundry and drying linens on racks before a fireplace, captioned "Dolly's Surprise," at bottom right; the poster advertises the comedy drama "Hazel Kirke" by Steele Mackaye.

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Arthur Rehan's Company : Augustin Daly’s latest and merriest success Nancy & Co

Visual Materials

Image of a woman with her hands clasped pleading with two men in suits, the man at center is dressed with a top hat, cane, and monocle; the poster advertises the comedy "Nancy and Company" adapted by John Augustin Daly from “Halbe Dichter” by Julius Rosen.

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Madison Square Theatre Co. : the professor

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Image of a central image of a full-length portrait of a man wearing glasses and holding one hand out towards the viewer and a hat in the other; surrounded by six vignettes of scenes consisting of a man standing on a chair about to hang himself with a noose; a man hitting another in a fist fight; a man falling out of a window; two women fighting each other; women attempting to restrain a violent man; and a man and a woman sitting on a bench and concealed by an umbrella who are presumably embracing; the poster advertises the comedy "The Professor" written by William Gillette.

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Rumsey's Blackville Fire Brigade : Rumsey & Co. Ltd manufacturers of pump-hand fire engines hook & ladder trucks etc. Seneca Falls, N.Y

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Image of an outdoor scene with caricatures of black firefighters pulling a hook and ladder truck with hand buckets that itself carries a manual fire engine pulled by additional firemen, towards a fire at a dilapidated cabin labeled "Hotel D'Afrique" with African American guests in their pajamas fleeing the burning building and running towards a lake; individual caricatures include a man drinking liquor from a bottle, guests escaping from a tree, a man with a banjo, a woman with the words "El Mardi" on her nightdress, men carrying a chicken, pig and stove, men trying to pull a mule while one wields a baseball bat, and a dog attached to a wooden barrel; a sign above the hotel door reads "Table D'Hote" and "Not responsible for money and jewels not left in the safe" and the fire truck has the label "Manufactured by Rumsey & Co. Ltd Seneca Falls New York."

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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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Constable Hook Company

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