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

Description: 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.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1889
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000364
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

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

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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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A Rag Baby by Chas. H. Hoyt

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Image of three head-and-shoulder portraits of female actors, including two wearing bonnets and one with small decorative fans in her hair, in circle ribbon frames surrounded by flowers; the poster advertises the comedy "A Rag Baby" written by Charles H. Hoyt.

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T. J. Farron’s soap bubble

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Image of a scene of a man dancing on a city rooftop wearing a top hat and holding a gun and a lantern; the poster advertises the musical comedy "A Soap Bubble" written by Montgomery Phister.

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Henry E. Dixey supported by Rice & Dixey’s Big Burlesque Co. in Adonis

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Image of a central image of a carnival with four female performers dancing around the American actor Henry Dixey, dressed in historical costume as Adonis, with four head-and-shoulder portraits of the female dancers at top and a vignette portrait framed with flowers of a head-and-shoulders profile portrait of a sad young woman with a red heart being chopped by an ax; the poster advertises the burlesque comedy "Adonis, the Statue" written by William Gill.

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The brook : Salsburys Troubadours

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Image of a group of eight female and male performers in a rowboat on a lake with individuals playing a violin to two howling dogs, rowing the boat, looking through a telescope at a hat, singing from sheet music, popping the cork on a bottle of champagne, catching a turtle on a fishing line, and playing a practical joke with a frog; the poster advertises the musical comedy "The Brook" performed by Salsbury's Troubadours.

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Cosgrove & Grant’s comedians in the dazzler : a horseless carriage

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Image of nine fashionable young women on a beach in dresses and wearing flowers in their hats and, in place of horses, leading a carriage carrying three men and two women with colorful ribbons; the poster advertises the musical comedy "The Dazzler" written by Thomas Eddison and managed by John F. Cosgrove and Alexander L. Grant.

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

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