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Superb scenic production of L.J. Carter’s great play : the fast mail

Description: Image of a landscape view of Niagara Falls at night with silhouettes of people on a suspension bridge and a body falling into the river below; vignettes of four scenes consisting of a man tied to a chair; a man sitting on a park bench with a woman standing behind him; a police officer shining a light down upon two men, and a man comparing the time on a pocket watch to the time of a grandfather clock; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Fast Mail" written by Lincoln J. Carter.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1889 and 1893
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000253
Creator: Last, Jay T

Augustin Daly’s great play under the gaslight : under the management of P.T. Turner

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Image of a parlor with a young woman, portraying the character Laura Courtland, in a formal dress sitting in a chair holding an open book while a man, the character Ray Trafford, in a tuxedo stands behind, with a table, framed picture, vase and flowers, and curtains in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "Under the Gaslight" by Augustin Daly.

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Harper's magazine Christmas = 1898

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Image of an advertisement for Harper's Magazine Christmas 1898 issue depicting three men falling to their knees and praying to a large star shining over the city of Bethlehem in the distance.

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"The Fast Mail." : Scene of catching and delivering the mails on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway

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Image of an eye-level perspective view of a steam locomotive, tender, and labeled mail cars passing on a track before a mother, two children, a dog, and basket of fruit in the foreground, with a man throwing a mail bag from a train car to a man on the ground; the steam locomotive has a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement, an engineer behind the cab labeled "J.H. Devereux", the number "317" written on the locomotive, and a Masonic logo on the smoke-box door.

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Lena Aberle : in Ouida a great production

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Image of a head-and-shoulders profile portrait of actor Lena Aberle in a formal dress and wearing earrings with flowers along bottom; the poster advertises the melodrama "Ouida, or a Woman's Vengeance."

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Carter's latest novelty ... fac-simile of the locomotive used in Lincoln J. Carter's great play the Fast Mail

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Artist/Author: Carter, Lincoln J. Printer: Calvert Lithographing Co. (Detroit, Mich.).

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Shadows of a great city. : Act II

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Image of two men in prisoner uniforms, with one carrying a child as he scales down a pole on the side of a house's porch while the other man stands on the ground and reaches up, with a date stamp for performances beginning on January 19, [1885], at the Boston Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts; the poster advertises the melodrama "Shadows of a Great City" by L. R. Shewell.

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Superb scenic production of L.J. Carter’s great play : the fast mail

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