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The brook : Salsburys Troubadours

Description: Image of a group of eight female and male performers in a rowboat on a lake with individuals playing a violin to two howling dogs, rowing the boat, looking through a telescope at a hat, singing from sheet music, popping the cork on a bottle of champagne, catching a turtle on a fishing line, and playing a practical joke with a frog; the poster advertises the musical comedy "The Brook" performed by Salsbury's Troubadours.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1878 and 1885
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000275
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Salsbury’s Troubadours

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Image of six head-and-shoulders portraits of the two female and four male members of the comic troupe Salsbury's Troubadours wearing formal dress, in oval frames surrounded by plants, a crane, a turtle, and two anthropomorphized singing frogs; the portraits are unlabeled but presumably include troupe members Nate Salsbury, Nellie McHenry, and John L. Webster.

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Salsbury’s Troubadours

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Image of six indoor and outdoor scenes performed by the comic troupe Salsbury's Troubadours including a winter sleigh scene with a horse-drawn sleigh in the snow, and dramatic and musical scenes with characters in historic and contemporary costumes and including royalty, individuals holding swords, musicians with mandolins and bells, and a woman holding a glass of wine; a head-and-shoulders portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in a circle frame at upper right.

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Salsbury's Troubadours : Nellie McHenry

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Image of a half-length portrait of actor and Salsbury's Troubadours member Nellie McHenry, wearing a large feathered blue hat and a dress decorated with a bird and butterfly, looking out of a wooden window adorned with morning glory flowers; with date sheet for a March 16, [1886], show at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at the bottom of the poster.

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The wonderful albino family. : Rudolph Lucasie, wife and children, from Madagascar. They have pure white skin, silken white hair and pink eyes !! Have been exhibited at Barnum’s Museum N.Y. for three years

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Image of albino Rudolph Lucasie dressed in a tribal costume with his family standing for a portrait, with the children standing in front of their parents. The boy is playing violin and the girl is holding her mother's hand.

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Henriot & Co. Rheims champagne

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Image of a advertisement for Henriot & Co. Rheims champagne with a coupe glass and two bottles of champagne on a windowsill with bunches of grapes; bird flying just outside window with lake and mountain landscape in background.

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Buckley's New Orleans Serenades : who have appeared with great success in the following countries, England, Ireland

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Image of a central image of eight musicians, in blackface, sitting in a row and playing musical instruments including banjoes, a violin, a guitar, and a tambourine, surrounded by vignettes of the Buckley Serenaders consisting of images of their performances in theaters before full audiences, captioned "As they appeared at the Drury Lane, London," "As they appeared in Mexico," an image of the troupe traveling through the California wilderness on horseback captioned, "As they Appeared in California," head-and-shoulders portraits of James Buckley, Richard Buckley, George Buckley, and Frederick Buckley in formal dress, and four smaller vignettes of the minstrels performing in costume; decorated with an ornate floral borders with musical instruments and two black cherubs.

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The brook : Salsburys Troubadours

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