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 an outdoor scene with a horse-drawn wagon labeled "John Thompsons Express no. 1" being driven by a driver down a dirt road with nine caricatured men and women including a Chinese immigrant in the cart; 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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  Kiralfy Bros. new brilliant production : around the world in 80 days

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  Image of a large group of female performers in a variety of international costumes standing and sitting with vases, banners, curtains, and columns, and a sign reading "Porselin[sic]"; vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of two men, presumably Bolossy Kiralfy and Imre Kiralfy in ovals at top right; the poster advertises the play "Around the World in Eighty Days" based on the novel by Jules Verne.

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  Funniest show in the world the huge pantomimic musical comedy : an aerial honeymoon invented and patented by John F. Byrne

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  Image of a crashing airship scene with people in their pajamas being tossed around in an "Air Line Sleeping Car" and men hanging from the ship's rafters; the poster advertises a scene from the musical comedy "An Aerial Honeymoon" by John F. Byrne.

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  Tony Pastor’s Grand Company : Callan Haley and Callan

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  Image of six vignettes of minstrel performers John Callan, Maurice Haley, and James Callan consisting of three individual head-and-should portraits of the Callans and Haley in formal dress and three scenes of the performers wearing costumes and performing in blackface including a scene with one man dressed as a female impersonator and a scene with one man wearing a jacket with the word "RATS" on the back while another of the troupe measures the size of his skull with a measuring instrument.

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  100 Wives

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  Image of a crowd of men and women, presumably Mormons in a wagon train, standing in a clearing in a forest with an older woman and girl in tattered clothes embracing at center, with a basket, a campfire with a pot cooking above, covered wagons, horses, and trunks, nearby, and the mountains and trees visible in the distance; fragment of a date sheet pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the Mormon-focused melodrama "100 Wives" written by Gil Pierce and James B. Runnion.

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