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"Fascination." : Cora Tanner

Description: Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait in profile of actor Cora Tanner wearing earrings; date sheet for a May 30, [1887], performance of the play at the Park Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, pasted below image; the poster advertises the comedy "Fascination" (also titled "The Way We Live") written by Robert Buchanan.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1887
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000288
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

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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I’ve been to see : the new baby : a howling success chaperoned by David De Wolf

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of a smiling baby; the poster advertises the comedy "The New Baby" adapted by English actor and stage manager Arthur Bourchier from the German play "Der Rabenvater" by H. Fischer and Joseph Jarn.

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Aimee in English

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of French opéra bouffe actor and singer Marie Aimée; date sheet for a September 13, [1886], show at the Park Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, pasted above image; the poster presumably advertises the farce comedy "Mam'zelle" written by George Jessop and William Gill.

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Aimee in the new English comedy "Mam’zelle."

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of French opéra bouffe actor and singer Marie Aimée; with a date sheet for the December 8-9, [1884], show in Redmond's Grand Opera House in Grand Rapids, Michigan, pasted at the top of the image; the poster advertises the farce comedy "Mam'zelle" written by George Jessop and William Gill.

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Harry Webber in nip & tuck detectives

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Image of a man running on foot while holding a piece of paper and chasing after a man on a galloping donkey; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of comedian and actor Harry Webber in formal dress at upper left; the poster advertises the melodrama comedy "Nip and Tuck: or, the Great Detectives."

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Gus Williams in his new comedy “oh, what a night”

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American actor Gus Williams as the character Major Pottgeiser, in a frame bordered by stars in the night sky, leaves, tree branches, and an owl with a bandaged head peering over the portrait frame; the poster advertises the comedy "Oh, What a Night" written by George Hoey.

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"Fascination." : Cora Tanner

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