Visual Materials

Madison Square Theatre : Esmeralda

Description: Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of a farm girl wearing a bonnet and a red bandana around her neck, with a pail of corn and a rural country landscape in the background; the poster advertises the comedic drama "Esmeralda" written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and William H. Gillette.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1882
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000219
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Madison Square Theatre Company. : The professor

Visual Materials

Image of a full-length portrait of the character "The Professor" wearing a suit and a monocle and standing with one hand held out and holding his hat in the other; the poster advertises the comedy "The Professor" written by William H. Gillette.

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Madison Square Theatre Co. : the professor

Visual Materials

Image of a central image of a full-length portrait of a man wearing glasses and holding one hand out towards the viewer and a hat in the other; surrounded by six vignettes of scenes consisting of a man standing on a chair about to hang himself with a noose; a man hitting another in a fist fight; a man falling out of a window; two women fighting each other; women attempting to restrain a violent man; and a man and a woman sitting on a bench and concealed by an umbrella who are presumably embracing; the poster advertises the comedy "The Professor" written by William Gillette.

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The Madison Square Theatre Company : Hazel Kirke

Visual Materials

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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Worrell Sisters' New York Theatre

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Printer: Metropolitan Job Print With woodcut image of a scene from "Esmeralda"

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Union Square Theatre

Visual Materials

Printer: Seer's Engraving and Printing Establishment With woodcut image of a scene in a ballroom with a woman fainting from the play "Led Astray" from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

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Broadway Theatre corner of Broadway & Broome St. : John E. Owens as "Paul Pry"

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Image of a full-length portrait of English-American comedic actor John Owens dressed as the character "Paul Pry" with rumpled clothing, a top hat, umbrella, eyeglasses, and boots; the poster advertises the comedy "Paul Pry" written by Douglas William Jerrold.

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Madison Square Theatre : Esmeralda

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