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Howorth’s Hibernica Comedy Company

Description: Image of a central image of a horse-drawn cart with a driver and two male passengers on a rural country road with a hay bale and cabin in the background, surrounded by nine vignettes of full-length portraits of performers including a female performer in a formal gown singing from sheet music, a man dressed as Uncle Sam with a carpet bag, a male minstrel performer dancing in blackface, and a young boy; the vignettes are set against a background of green clover; the poster advertises Howorth's Hibernica Comedy Company.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1879 and 1897
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000310
Creator: Last, Jay T

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Image of four elephants standing on their hind legs with a female circus performer, and a ring with performing elephants and a male animal trainer and female performer in the background; date sheet for an August 20-30, [1959], show in Los Angeles, California, pasted below image.

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Walter L. Main 3 Ring Trained Wild Animal Shows : high wire artists : introducing the most difficult and dangerous feats ever devised by human ingenuity

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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.

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The world famed M’me Rentz’s celebrated minstrels

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Image of a group portrait of a female musical group dressed in formal gowns and seated in a row under a loggia with a lake and trees in the background, with some playing musical instruments including violins, a flute, horn, harp, and cello and accompanied by one male member seated in the center and two male members in blackface at each end also playing instruments; thirteen vignettes with head-and-shoulder portraits of the female performers in formal dress above the central image.

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George Knight's Comedy Co. over the garden wall by Scott Marble

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Image of an outdoor courtyard with two servants and a man pushing two baby carriages and holding crying babies while onlookers watch; with vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of German comedian George S. Knight and his wife, American burlesque performer Sophie Worrell Knight, at bottom center; fragment of a date sheet for the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the musical and burlesque show "Over the Garden Wall" by Scott Marble that was produced by the Knights.

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Howorth’s Hibernica Comedy Company

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