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Hands across the sea

Description: Image of an outdoor scene in a courtyard with a woman on a horse charging through a gate to stop a firing squad of French soldiers with rifles and bayonets who are preparing to shoot a prisoner who stands next to a guillotine in the back of the courtyard; the poster advertises the English melodrama "Hands Across the Sea" by Henry Pettitt.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1889
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000197
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

The Soudan

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The young American tragedian Edmund Collier in Metamora

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Image of three vignettes of fights and battles between British soldiers, pilgrims, and Native American Indians, with Indians and colonists both shooting rifles and including a scene with Indians attacking colonists in a house and an outdoor scene with colonists firing rifles on Indians who have bows and arrows and tomahawks while a man is burned at the stake in the background; the poster advertises the historical melodrama "Metamora, or The Last of Wampanoags" by John A. Stone.

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Battle of Opequan or Winchester, Va

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Image of Union and Confederate armies engaged in the Battle of Opequan (Battle of Winchester) in Virginia in 1864 during the American Civil War; troops clash in a field surrounded by forests; charging cavalry in foreground; firing lines with cannons in background; dead and wounded men and horses on ground.

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Taken from life

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Image of an outdoor scene in a courtyard with a fleeing man on a horse trying to escape a fallen police officer, with onlookers and a man with a pitchfork threatening a couple in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "Taken From Life" written by Henry Pettitt.

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Blackmail

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Image of a blond child pulling on the arm of a man wearing a pirate costume who sits at table with his back turned to her with a drink and bottle of alcohol; the poster advertises the melodrama "Blackmail" by William C. Cowper.

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Beacon lights

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Image of an outdoor scene with an older man introducing his niece, a young woman who is curtseying, to an older man, with a cabin and mountains in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "Beacon Lights" written by H. Dewitt Young.

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