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Byron combination

Description: Image of a ship deck full of male and female passengers, including sailors, a child, a man in pajamas, and an African American man, with furniture and passengers strewn about due to rough ocean conditions; a single individual who has fallen overboard can be seen in the ocean at left, while a man stands on the railing poised to dive in after him; the poster presumably advertises the Oliver Byron Combination company.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 188-
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000276
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

Gus Williams as John Mishler : "One of the Finest." Under the management of John Rickaby

Visual Materials

Image of a central image of American actor Gus Williams dressed in character as a police officer swinging a night stick with surrounding vignettes of crime scenes including a woman being held at gunpoint on a porch next to the East River in New York City where a man prepares to dive into the water to save a drowning man, with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background, captioned "The East River Tragedy," at upper right; Officer Mishler in his pajamas pointing a gun at a man in a hall outside of bedrooms, captioned "'Why do you interfere between man and wife?' 'On the personal responsibility of a man'- John Mishler," at bottom center; two women looking at two men on a sidewalk, captioned "The Masher," at center left; and a man holding a baby before a woman captioned "'Are you sure this is the little girl?,'" at upper left; the poster advertises the play "One of the Finest" written by Joseph Bradford.

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The Great Forepaugh & Sells Brothers shows combined : phenomenal acts of contortion

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Image of acrobats performing contortionist acts and a juggler performing under a circus tent with clowns in the background; side panel image of an acrobat performing a backwards high dive from an extension ladder onto a platform.

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Shook & Collier’s "Lights o’ London"

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Image of an outdoor night scene of the English countryside in winter with a young man wearing pajamas on his knees before a man with a whip in a snowy field with an old woman looking on and a green wagon, barn, and snowy field in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Lights o' London" written by George R. Sims and performed by the company of Sheridan Shook and James Collier.

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Pat Rooney’s New York Star Combination

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Image of caricatures of Irish comedian Pat Rooney driving a horse-drawn carriage with a male performer and a female performer as passengers past a crowd of spectators standing before an opera house that carries a flag labeled "Independent Candidate Pat Rooney" towards the White House in Washington, D.C., while caricatures of political figures sit and watch in the lower right foreground (presumably, from left to right, Thomas Nast, John A. Logan, Roscoe Conkling, James Blaine, Benjamin Franklin Butler, and William Tecumseh Sherman); date sheet for a show on October 30, [1884], presumably at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted to bottom of image.

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Autumn recreation

Visual Materials

Image of an eye-level view of a woman and man on bicycles riding down a park path in the center foreground, followed closely by a horse-drawn carriage with male and female passengers sitting in the driver's box and on the roof, with a lake and sailboats in the background.

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Rumsey's Blackville Fire Brigade : Rumsey & Co. Ltd manufacturers of pump-hand fire engines hook & ladder trucks etc. Seneca Falls, N.Y

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Image of an outdoor scene with caricatures of black firefighters pulling a hook and ladder truck with hand buckets that itself carries a manual fire engine pulled by additional firemen, towards a fire at a dilapidated cabin labeled "Hotel D'Afrique" with African American guests in their pajamas fleeing the burning building and running towards a lake; individual caricatures include a man drinking liquor from a bottle, guests escaping from a tree, a man with a banjo, a woman with the words "El Mardi" on her nightdress, men carrying a chicken, pig and stove, men trying to pull a mule while one wields a baseball bat, and a dog attached to a wooden barrel; a sign above the hotel door reads "Table D'Hote" and "Not responsible for money and jewels not left in the safe" and the fire truck has the label "Manufactured by Rumsey & Co. Ltd Seneca Falls New York."

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