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Union Square Theatre success : a prisoner for life

Description: Image of a young man and an old man in historical costumes trying to escape a jail cell, with the young man holding open a bag and the older man breaking the blocks of the cell wall with a metal rod; the poster advertises the melodrama "A Prisoner for Life" adapted from a French play by Louis Nathal.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1885
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000357
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Taken from life

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Image of an outdoor scene in a courtyard with a fleeing man on a horse trying to escape a fallen police officer, with onlookers and a man with a pitchfork threatening a couple in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "Taken From Life" written by Henry Pettitt.

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The comedy drama the new Fogg’s ferry by Chas E. Callahan

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Image of a young man trying to help a disheveled young woman in rumpled clothing who kneels on a park lawn, while another woman, wearing a hat decorated with a bird, clenches her fist as if to hit them; the poster advertises the comedic melodrama "New Fogg's Ferry" written by Charles Callahan, presumably as an updated version of his 1882 play "Fogg's Ferry."

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The Madison Square Theatre Company : Hazel Kirke

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Image of six vignettes of theatrical scenes and characters consisting of a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, captioned "Hazel," at top left; a parlor scene with an older man sleepwalking past a kneeling young woman captioned, "Seen & Unseen," at center left; a man with his arms folded, captioned "Squire Rodney," at lower left; a couple standing and embracing with the man smoking two cigarettes, captioned "May all our sorrows end like this 'in smoke,'" at lower left; a young man sitting and playing a penny whistle, captioned "Met," at bottom left; and a young woman wearing an apron and standing with a young man, with a basket of laundry and drying linens on racks before a fireplace, captioned "Dolly's Surprise," at bottom right; the poster advertises the comedy drama "Hazel Kirke" by Steele Mackaye.

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The black valley in great sensation drama of Peep O’Day

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Image of an outdoor scene near a rock quarry in Ireland with a young woman trying to fight off a man attacking her with a shovel while a man swinging from a tree limb attempts to rescue her, and a man stands on a cliff above near a windmill, with a lake in the background; the poster advertisers the Irish melodrama "Peep o' Day" written by Edmund Falconer, and based on a story by Irish writer John Banim, as performed by actor Mrs. D.P. Bowers (Elizabeth Crocker Bowers) at the New Chesnut Street Theatre (also spelled New Chestnut Street Theatre) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Great New York Lyric Theatre success : the wolf : a play of the Canadian woods by Eugene Walter

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Image of a landscape view of a wilderness area with three frontiersmen, two of whom smoke pipes, and a young woman with a bucket sitting and standing in a clearing and eavesdropping on a conversation between two young men, with a lake, cabin, and trees in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Wolf, a play of the Canadian woods" by Eugene Walter.

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Beacon lights

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Image of an outdoor scene with an older man introducing his niece, a young woman who is curtseying, to an older man, with a cabin and mountains in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "Beacon Lights" written by H. Dewitt Young.

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Union Square Theatre success : a prisoner for life

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