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The Soudan

Description: Image of a gory battle scene in a Sudanese city with British cavalry on horseback, armed with guns and swords, fighting bare-chested Arab natives with spears and swords, one jumping native holds the decapitated head of a British soldier; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Soudan," first performed in England under the title "Human Nature."
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 189-
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000251
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

The Soudan

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Image of a battle scene with Sudanese soldiers wearing turbans on horseback with spears and swords fighting Arab soldiers on foot with rifles; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Soudan," first performed in England under the title "Human Nature."

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The Soudan

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Image of British cavalry in red military jackets and helmets charging on horseback with swords in the air; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Soudan," first performed in England under the title "Human Nature."

priJLC_ENT_000348

The Soudan

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Image of an Arab soldier on a rearing horse riding through the desert with an army of soldiers in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Soudan," first performed in England under the title "Human Nature."

priJLC_ENT_000349

Child slaves of New York

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Image of an Arab man, wearing a robe with a knife in his belt, grabbing a detective by the neck and choking him at the direction of an elderly man in a similar costume and headdress who stands behind a table labeled "Kaldah the mystic" with a star and crescent symbol, while a worried young woman in a pink dress, hat, and fur stole looks on; the poster advertises the melodrama "Child Slaves of New York" written by Charles E. Blaney and Howard Hall.

priJLC_ENT_000281

Wm. Stafford : in the marble heart

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Image of a marble sculptor's workspace in Ancient Greece with the sculptor, presumably depicting actor William Stafford, and a young woman with a bare breast and handcuffs wearing short togas and Roman sandals, being surrounded by men and soldiers with helmets and spears before statues of three women that are partially hidden by ropes and curtains and illuminated by a man holding a lamp; the poster advertises the romantic melodrama "The Marble Heart" by Charles Selby.

priJLC_ENT_001877

See Kar-Mi : the great troupe : originators and presenters of the most marvelous sword swallowing act on Earth

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Image of fourteen vignettes of the Victorina Troupe (with a sheet for "See Kar-Mi" pasted over Victorina in the title) with top-center portraits of the three members in Middle Eastern, Hindu, or Gypsy-styled ethnic costumes: Joseph Hallworth known as Victorina and later Kar-Mi), Miss Victorina (presumably Kitty Fisher Hallworth), and a young girl, and additional images of the three performing swallowing acts including swallowing curved swords and scabbards, daggers, electric light bulbs, guns and bayonets, and a table leg, and drinking water through a tube.

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