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Royce and Lansing Musical Comedy Co. : in a basket of chips

Description: Image of five character vignettes consisting of two male and two female musicians, in Spanish costumes, standing in a row playing mandolins; head-and-shoulder portraits of a whiteface clown and a hobo captioned "The Cherubs," a portrait of a man with a cane and long mustache and a woman wearing a bonnet captioned "Symantha and Algernon"; an old man in an historical costume patting a boy with an ax on the head captioned "The Little Hatchet"; and a pirate with a knife moving towards a girl in a nightgown with her arms raised captioned "The Amateur Villain and Maiden"; with vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of Ray L. Royce, at upper right, and Web Lansing, at lower left, and a decorative border; the poster advertises the musical-comedy show "Basket of Chips" performed by Royce and Lansing's company.
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Date: approximately 1886

Royce & Lansing’s Musical Comedy Co. : In our private tutors

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Image of eight actors in costume performing as various roles including a center image of two men with one holding a piece of sheet music and a baton, and smaller images of six other performers including a girl, two young women holding school books and an umbrella, a man wearing theatrical tights and holding a shield and sword before a book labeled "Al. G. Bray" on the floor, a man dressed as a boy with books, and a man holding a broom before a box labeled "Chewing Gum"; the poster advertises the musical comedy "Our Private Tutors" performed by the company of Ray L. Royce and Web Lansing.

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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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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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Cole Bros. Circus : Jumbo the 2nd : only African Elephant exhibited with any American circus

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Image of an elephant in chains; small vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of Cole Bros. owners Jess Adkins and Zack Terrell in upper left corner.

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An idyl of the Arkansaw hills : human hearts

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Image of five head-and-shoulder portraits, in heart frames surrounded by flowers, for characters in the play the "Human Hearts" depicting a young man in a straw hat, captioned "Tom Logan with a human heart," at center; a hobo with a red-painted nose, captioned "Jem. Mason with an honest heart," at upper right; a girl, captioned, "Grace with an angel's heart," at lower right; a woman, captioned "Jeanette with a black heart," at lower left; and a boy wearing a cap, captioned "Limpy with a heart in the right place," at upper left; the poster advertises the melodrama the "Human Hearts" written by Hal Reid and later directed by William E. Nankeville.

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Zig zag : W.W. Tillotson’s Merry Comedy Co

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Image of a collage of head-and-shoulder portraits of six female performers in formal dress, each wearing a different fashionable woman's hat; the poster advertises the musical comedy "Zig Zag" written by Frank Tannehill, Jr., and managed by W.W. Tillotson.

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Royce and Lansing Musical Comedy Co. : in a basket of chips

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