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Rose Eytinge

Description: Image of a black-and-white head-and-shoulders profile portrait of American actor Rose Eytinge in an oval frame centered against a floral backdrop of colorful roses; the poster includes printed date information for performances beginning on October 22, [1883], at the Grand Opera House in Brooklyn, New York, and presumably advertises the play "The Winter's Tale" by William Shakespeare.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1883
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000344
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
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Richard III. : Richard Foote. Tragedian

Visual Materials

Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American actor Richard Foote in formal dress reflected in a hand-held mirror oval with flowers; the poster advertises the tragedy "Richard III" by William Shakespeare.

priJLC_ENT_000341

Louis Aldrich : under the direction of Chapman & Sellers

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American actor Louis Aldrich, wearing formal dress, in an oval decorated with United States flags, eagle, leaves, acorns, and branches, and a shield; date sheet for performances beginning on December 13, [1886], at the Grand Opera House in Brooklyn, New York, pasted at bottom of image; the poster advertises Aldrich presumably in the drama "My Partner" by Bartley Campbell.

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Joe in Polk’s mixed pickles

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Image of an oval head-and-shoulders portrait of comedian Joe Polk (also known as J. B. Polk) in an oval frame decorated with flowers; the poster advertises the comedy "Mixed Pickles."

priJLC_ENT_000398

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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Mr. Barney Williams

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Irish-American actor and comedian Barney Williams wearing formal dress; oval frame around portrait.

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Salvini : supported by an American company

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Italian actor Tommaso Salvini, in an oval frame decorated with a laurel wreath, centered between four vignettes of Salvini with male and female performers in historic costumes performing in scenes from three tragedies by William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Hamlet, and Othello, and the play "Ingomar, the Barbarian" by Maria Anne Lovell, and including Salvini holding a skull in a cemetery and wearing a fur cape as a tribesman with a Greek young woman holding a spear and shield.

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