Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Image of a royal court of whiteface clowns with a clown king on a throne labeled "The Master Mime" crowning the kneeling clown Alfred Miaco with a laurel wreath, with a line of clowns, a court jester, two female performers, statues on the wall labeled Denier, Fox, and Grimaldi, and a curtain labeled "Afe Llo Wofi Nfi Ni Tej Est"; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of pantomime troupe manager Tony Denier in formal dress at top left in a laurel leaf frame; the poster advertises Denier's Humpty Dumpty Company.
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Image of a central scene of caricatures of two male and one female performers on a miniature stage consisting of a blond boy dancing in a sailors suit, presumably Tony Denier, a blond woman dancing in a servant's outfit, presumably Amanda Tissot, and a man with a cane and top hat, presumably Jules Tissot; with head-and-shoulder portrait vignettes presumably of the Tissots and Denier at top; date sheet for a February 22, [1882], show at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom; the poster advertises Tony Denier's Humpty Dumpty Pantomime Troupe, with the text for "Mons. and Mlle. Tissot, the Living Automatons" covered by a sheet advertising the clown Alfred Miaco.
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Date sheet for a November 4, [1879], show at an unidentified City Hall pasted at bottom
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Image of three panels showing performances of a whiteface clown and an old man in short pants; the four members of the acrobatic troupe the Martinetti Family in a balancing act with one man standing on two upside down chairs while he holds up two female performers and another man stands on his head; and six vignettes of the Bernardo's jugglers doing juggling acts with knives, balancing tops, and fire sticks, including one before an Egyptian pyramid; the poster advertises the Humpty Dumpty Troupe of George Adams.
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Image of acrobats Leroux and Wilton swinging on bars in a gymnastic routine on a porch with trees and decorated columns in the background; head-and-shoulders portraits of Leroux (presumably Charles LeRoux) and Wilton at corners.
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Image of a broadside with text advertising performances at the Adelphi Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, beginning December 23, [1876], and featuring Tony Denier in "Jack and the Beanstalk"; the "kickapoo dancers" the 3 Phoites; the "head balancers" the Orrins; "corde volante" artist Louise Boshell; pantomime J. S. Sloan; "club exerciser" De Witt Cook; and the German comic W. H. Bray; with a green and red Christmas holly border.
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