Pat Rooney’s New York Star Combination : Rowe & Athol the world’s wonders : in their classic pictures of contortion

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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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  Pat Rooney's New York star combination : Woodson and Bennett, character artists

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  Tony Denier’s new pantomime troupe Humpty Dumpty. : Charles Leroux, the Roman gyrast

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  Sig. Giacomo Galetti : the European bird monarch : with his unexcelled birds in their wonderful feats

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  Ringling Bros shows : Hillary Long who puts his skates upon his head and wears his hat upon his feet while accomplishing apparently impossible stunts

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  Miss Katie Rooney with Rooney Comedy Co. in Pat’s new wardrobe : Asana Banad

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