Visual Materials

Over the garden wall : Mrs. Geo. S. Knight

Description: Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American burlesque performer Sophie Worrell Knight in formal dress and wearing a large hat and framed by an Art Nouveau-style floral border; the poster advertises the musical and burlesque show "Over the Garden Wall" by Scott Marble produced by Knight and her husband, German comedian George S. Knight.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1885
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000236
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance

George Knight's Comedy Co. over the garden wall by Scott Marble

Visual Materials

Image of an outdoor courtyard with two servants and a man pushing two baby carriages and holding crying babies while onlookers watch; with vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of German comedian George S. Knight and his wife, American burlesque performer Sophie Worrell Knight, at bottom center; fragment of a date sheet for the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the musical and burlesque show "Over the Garden Wall" by Scott Marble that was produced by the Knights.

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Mrs. Geo. S. Knight

Visual Materials

Image of American burlesque performer and actor Sophie Worrell Knight (Mrs. George S. Knight) wearing jewelry and a formal dress with bustle and ribbons, leaning on a stone wall with trees and a country cottage in the background.

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Otto : a German

Visual Materials

Image of circular vignettes of head-and-shoulders portraits of German comedian George S. Knight and his wife, American burlesque performer Sophie Worrell Knight, surrounded by tree, leaf, and fence borders, and four vignettes of scenes with a top center image of an outdoors view of a couple and two men in the front yard of a house with a fountain captioned "Act. 1st"; a bottom left image of an outdoor view of a park with a couple and a man on the ground having just been hit by a woman captioned "Act. 2nd."; a bottom center image of three men in a warehouse captioned "Act 3rd."; and a bottom right image of individuals in a formal parlor captioned "Act. 4th."; the poster advertises the comedic drama "Otto, a German" by Fred Mardsen.

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Mr. Geo. S. Knight

Visual Materials

Image of a three-quarter length portrait of German comedian and actor George S. Knight in formal dress with a gold watch fob, leaning on a stone wall with a garden and statue in the background.

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British Blonde Burlesque Troupe

Visual Materials

Image of a central head-and-shoulders portrait of an unidentified blond woman framed in a heart border with a banner reading “Fun” and “Wit” and surrounded by seven playing cards with portraits of unidentified man and women depicted as the kings and queens of the deck, with a front banner held up by two naked cherubs with angel wings; the poster advertises the “British Blonde Burlesque Troupe.”

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Henry E. Dixey supported by Rice & Dixey’s Big Burlesque Co. in Adonis

Visual Materials

Image of a central image of a carnival with four female performers dancing around the American actor Henry Dixey, dressed in historical costume as Adonis, with four head-and-shoulder portraits of the female dancers at top and a vignette portrait framed with flowers of a head-and-shoulders profile portrait of a sad young woman with a red heart being chopped by an ax; the poster advertises the burlesque comedy "Adonis, the Statue" written by William Gill.

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Over the garden wall : Mrs. Geo. S. Knight

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