Pat Rooney's New York star combination : Woodson and Bennett, character artists

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  Pat Rooney’s New York Star Combination

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  Image of caricatures of Irish comedian Pat Rooney driving a horse-drawn carriage with a male performer and a female performer as passengers past a crowd of spectators standing before an opera house that carries a flag labeled "Independent Candidate Pat Rooney" towards the White House in Washington, D.C., while caricatures of political figures sit and watch in the lower right foreground (presumably, from left to right, Thomas Nast, John A. Logan, Roscoe Conkling, James Blaine, Benjamin Franklin Butler, and William Tecumseh Sherman); date sheet for a show on October 30, [1884], presumably at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted to bottom of image.

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  Miss Katie Rooney with Rooney Comedy Co. in Pat’s new wardrobe : Asana Banad

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  Image of a full-length portrait of young female actor Katie Rooney (also known as Kate Rooney) in a gingham costume waving, with a head-and-shoulders portrait of Rooney in a circular frame at upper left; ornate border decorated with clover and a palm frond; the poster advertises the comedy "Pat's New Wardrobe" (also promoted as "Pat's Wardrobe") written by Irish comedian Pat Rooney.

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  Al. G. Field Minstrels : Billy Beard the party from the South

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  Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of minstrel performer Billy Beard in blackface, with a vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Beard in formal dress at upper right.

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  Pat Rooney’s New York Star Combination : Rowe & Athol the world’s wonders : in their classic pictures of contortion

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  Image of contortionists Dick Rowe (also known as Richard Rowe) and Harry Athol performing multiple gymnastic contortions, with vignette head-and-shoulder portraits of Rowe and Athol in the top corners.

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  McNish, Ramza & Arno’s Refined Minstrels : two great cards Ted Francis Geo. B. Leslie

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  Image of a full-length caricature portrait of singer and composer Ted Francis standing next to Irish comedian George B. Leslie in blackface near theater curtains and a potted palm tree; with a vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Leslie at upper right.

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  Oscar F. Hodge Presents Neil O’Brien great American super-minstrels

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  Image of a central image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of minstrel performer Neil O’Brien in formal dress, surrounded by an upper left image of a group portrait of an orchestra, with members in blackface, seated outdoors with their musical instruments and a plantation-style mansion in the background, and a lower right image of a group portrait of a male minstrel troupe in blackface posing next to blackface performers playing a dice game; with a sketch of an African American family dancing to banjo music in front of a rural cabin at lower left and a sketch of steamships coming into a port with cargo on the docks at upper right.

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