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Jarrett & Rice’s new departure : fun on the Bristol : City Hall, Friday, Oct. 29

Description: Image of a central image of a row of nine male and female performers playing household items as musical instruments including two performers in blackface portraying an African American woman playing a rolling pin as a flute and an African American man playing an umbrella; surrounded by vignettes depicting additional comedic scenes and head-and-shoulder portraits of the nine actors and actresses in the production; the poster advertises the comedy-musical show "Fun on the Bristol, Or a Night on the Sound" managed by Edward E. Rice and Henry C. Jarrett and performing at City Hall (presumably in Portland, Maine) on October 29, [1880].
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Date: approximately 1880
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000209

Fun on the Bristol : or a night on the sound

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Image of a central image of a paddle steamer called the Bristol with people on deck and flags flying; a vignette of a ship's captain standing in the "B" of the title text and looking through a spy glass at top center, a vignette of a full-length caricature portrait of a naval officer standing with a sword at bottom left and a vignette of a cartoon of the officer getting sea sick while the ship captain looks on and asks, "Sick Sir?" and the officer responds, "You don't suppose I'm doing this for fun do you?" at bottom right; the poster advertises the comedy-musical show "Fun on the Bristol, Or a Night on the Sound" managed by Edward E. Rice and Henry C. Jarrett.

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Hans and Nix : everything new but the title : fun, music and song : the positive limit in polite comedy

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Image of a group of eight young women in matching costumes playing drums tied with pink ribbons; the poster advertises the musical comedy "Hans and Nix" written by Harry F. Matthews.

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New Parker Amusement Co's "world's fair on wheels" : Raver & Darnaby's glittering oriental extravaganza the singing girls of Bagdad

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Image of an outdoor scene with a group of young women from Baghdad, Iraq, dressed in Middle Eastern costumes with flowing skirts, jewelry, gold headdresses, and scarves, with female performers playing musical instruments including a drum and a lute, and the minarets of a city visible in the distance; the poster advertises the "Bagdad" musical carnival performed by the New Parker Amusement Company owned by Harry Raver and J. A. Darnaby.

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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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The world famed M’me Rentz’s celebrated minstrels

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Image of a group portrait of a female musical group dressed in formal gowns and seated in a row under a loggia with a lake and trees in the background, with some playing musical instruments including violins, a flute, horn, harp, and cello and accompanied by one male member seated in the center and two male members in blackface at each end also playing instruments; thirteen vignettes with head-and-shoulder portraits of the female performers in formal dress above the central image.

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The brook : Salsburys Troubadours

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Image of a group of eight female and male performers in a rowboat on a lake with individuals playing a violin to two howling dogs, rowing the boat, looking through a telescope at a hat, singing from sheet music, popping the cork on a bottle of champagne, catching a turtle on a fishing line, and playing a practical joke with a frog; the poster advertises the musical comedy "The Brook" performed by Salsbury's Troubadours.

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Jarrett & Rice’s new departure : fun on the Bristol : City Hall, Friday, Oct. 29

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