John E. Owens in his famous pathetic & comic characters

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  Broadway Theatre corner of Broadway & Broome St. : John E. Owens as "Paul Pry"

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  Image of a full-length portrait of English-American comedic actor John Owens dressed as the character "Paul Pry" with rumpled clothing, a top hat, umbrella, eyeglasses, and boots; the poster advertises the comedy "Paul Pry" written by Douglas William Jerrold.

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  John Thompson and his star troupe of comic characters. : In "around the world."

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  Image of a train platform with nine caricatured men and women including a Chinese immigrant with his back turned, a female impersonator, and a man with a monkey sitting on a box on his back, standing at center with luggage and trunks and a crowd of passengers watching from a railroad train car labeled "Drawing Room Car"; with a vignette head-and-shoulders portrait of comedian and character actor John Thompson at upper left in an oval leaf frame; the poster advertises the comedic show "Around the World" (also known as "Around the World in Eighty Minutes").

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  John Thompson and his star troupe of comic characters. : In "around the world"

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  Image of an outdoor scene with a horse-drawn wagon labeled "John Thompsons Express no. 1" being driven by a driver down a dirt road with nine caricatured men and women including a Chinese immigrant in the cart; with a vignette head-and-shoulders portrait of comedian and character actor John Thompson at upper left in an oval leaf frame; the poster advertises the comedic show "Around the World" (also known as "Around the World in Eighty Minutes").

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  The Barnum & Bailey musical elephant prodigies

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  Image of a central image of five elephants playing horn instruments with female circus performers also playing horns while standing on the elephants' backs, with four vignettes of the elephants in various performances, captioned "Entirely New Elephant Performances," "The Gallant Pachyderms," "A Swiss Bell Quintet," and "The Grand Overture," and a small vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of elephant trainer Harry J. Mooney.

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  Map of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway and Its Connections

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  Image of a map of a portion of the Midwest and Eastern United States showing the routes and connecting lines of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway with two smaller images in the lower left corner captioned, "View of East End of the Great Union Depot, Cleveland, O." and "Front view of Great Chicago Depot, where Passengers arrive and depart in the heart of the city." ; map verso contains panels with printed railroad timetables and promotional descriptions, a vignette of a passenger car labeled "Sleeping Odell Coach" and a map of the railroad routes between Pittsburgh and Lake Erie titled "Map of route between Buffalo, Cleveland and Pittsburgh ..."; fold-up map covers contain two vignettes captioned "The mail carrier of 100 years ago" and "The Flight of the Fast mail" and a vignette of passing locomotives.

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

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  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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