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The Adah Richmond : American Burlesque Company

Description: Image of an open gold pocket watch containing a central head-and-shoulders portrait of a female performer in formal dress, presumably burlesque actor and singer Adah Richmond, surrounded by twelve smaller head-and-shoulder portraits of unidentified male and female performers.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1885
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000264
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

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

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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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Adah Richmond : American opera bouffe artist

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Image of six head-and-shoulders portraits of opera singer Adah Richmond on a tiered vase with flowers.

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The Henry Burlesque Co. : Ada Henry

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Image of a full-length portrait of burlesque performer Ada Henry in a burlesque formal riding costume impersonating a man with a long riding coat, top hat, ruffled shirt, cummerbund, blue garter, tights; with a vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Ada Henry in formal female dress at top left bordered by leaves.

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M. F. Scott-Siddons

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of British actor Mary Frances Scott-Siddons wearing a dress, flower corsage, and necklace in an oval frame surrounded by fourteen vignettes of head-and-shoulders portraits of unidentified male and female performers in formal dress with an open book below and a small head-and-shoulders bust of William Shakespeare at top center.

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[Collage of a burlesque and minstrel performers and acts]

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Image of a collage of vignettes of burlesque, acrobatic, and minstrel acts and performers centered between two standing burlesque dancers in red costumes and including vignettes of the head-and-shoulders of fourteen female performers in formal dress, acrobats performing on bars, trapezes, and in balancing acts on balls and on a tightrope high wire, rows of men dancing with some in blackface, a group of female dancers with jump ropes, and a male minstrel troupe with musical instruments.

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British Blonde Burlesque Troupe

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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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The Adah Richmond : American Burlesque Company

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