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Hallen & Hart’s first prize ideals : Julia Wilson the original 'Tot.'

Description: Image of a profile head-and-shoulders portrait of Julia Wilson in a white bonnet framed within a Japanese folding fan with flowers and a ribbon; the poster advertises the vaudeville variety show "First Prize Ideals" produced by the vaudeville company Hallen and Hart under Frederick Hallen and Enid Hart; a text panel with the name of actor "Polly McDonald" was pasted over Wilson's name on the poster.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1886
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000297
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Madison Square Theatre : Esmeralda

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The white slave by Bartley Campbell

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A Nutmeg Match. : written by Wm Haworth. Author of the ensign

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Image of a dining room scene with a wedding cake on the table and the groom sitting back in his chair as the bride rushes at him with her hands in the air knocking over her chair, while the rest of the family stands up from the table; a head-and-shoulder portrait framed within a nutmeg seed of a girl wearing a bonnet at upper left; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Nutmeg Match" written by William Haworth.

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Hallen & Hart’s first prize ideals : Julia Wilson the original 'Tot.'

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