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Tony Pastor’s Grand Company : Callan Haley and Callan

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1886
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000510
Creator: Last, Jay T

I.W. Baird's Famous Minstrels : perfect in every detail - strong and solid

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Image of a street scene with a man in a suit, presumably minstrel show proprietor I.W. Baird, holding a bunch of balloons with fourteen of the balloons showing a different minstrel show scene including dancing, acrobatics, singing, drama, and musical performances by costumed performers, female impersonators, and performers in blackface; an older African American man lies on the street touching the balloons, with two dogs and spectators looking on.

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The mother-in-law's discovery

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Image of a scene in a house with a mother-in-law attacking an Irish man with a feather duster and holding a letter addressed "Alderman McSweeney New York" with a couple, a man drinking from a bottle of wine, and a woman entering through a door in the background and a sign reading "Keep Nothing From Mother" on the wall; the poster presumably advertises the farce comedy "The Irish Alderman," written by Robert Neilson Stephens, in which a female impersonator played the role of Mrs. Bridget Casey, the mother-in-law of Alderman Dennis McSweeney.

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Blackmail by W.C. Cowper. : Under the management of Chapman & Sellers

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Image of an interior scene of a man and woman in historical costumes pointing a man wearing a pirate costume with a knife in his belt towards the door; the poster advertises the romantic drama "Blackmail" by William C. Cowper.

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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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Tony Denier's Alfred the great Miaco clown pantomimist and emperor of the stilts : with Humpty Dumpty newly hatched

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Image of a central scene of caricatures of two male and one female performers on a miniature stage consisting of a blond boy dancing in a sailors suit, presumably Tony Denier, a blond woman dancing in a servant's outfit, presumably Amanda Tissot, and a man with a cane and top hat, presumably Jules Tissot; with head-and-shoulder portrait vignettes presumably of the Tissots and Denier at top; date sheet for a February 22, [1882], show at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom; the poster advertises Tony Denier's Humpty Dumpty Pantomime Troupe, with the text for "Mons. and Mlle. Tissot, the Living Automatons" covered by a sheet advertising the clown Alfred Miaco.

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M.W. Hanley's Company presenting Edward Harrigan's latest New York success McSorley's Inflation

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Image of an eight-page theatrical courier including the front cover with a bust statue of American playwright and actor Edward Harrigan being pointed to by a caricature of Martin W. Hanley who stands nearby with a globe; a back cover page with an image presumably of Irish-American character Peter McSorley talking to his wife, portrayed by a female impersonator, in her grocery stall at Washington Market with watermelons and chickens in the background; a page with the lyrics of songs from the play including some written by Dave Braham; a page with the show's program; a page with three vignettes of an African American military regiment marching through the streets captioned "Charleston Blues," a six-piece band playing in the street with the sign "Salvation Army," and two women arguing in a grocery store captioned "Washington Market"; a page with seven vignettes of character portraits of a man at different ages including as a baby, child, soldier, and old man titled "The Seven Ages in 'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare"; a page with short humorous articles as well as statistics of the "Population of States and Territories in 1880"; a page with two vignettes of a crowd of dancing white men and women and black men captioned "McNally's Row of Flats," and a street scene with a grocer arguing with a man while a woman looks on and a Chinese immigrant falls out of a window while holding a trombone, and an African American man carries a bundle of laundry into a store with storefront signs for the "Coroner's Office" and "Hung Lung Laundry" behind and the caption "Chinese Must Go"; the courier advertises the musical comedy "McSorley's Inflation" written by Edward Harrigan.

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Tony Pastor’s Grand Company : Callan Haley and Callan

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