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John T. Raymond as Major Bob. : in paradise

Description: Image of a full-length portrait of actor John T. Raymond in costume as the frontiersman character Major Bob Belter sitting on a log in the woods, with a border with two wilderness images and a flower and dot decoration; the poster advertises the comedic melodrama "In Paradise" written by George Jessop and William Gill.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1883
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000399
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

John T. Raymond

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of American actor John T. Raymond in an oval frame, surrounded by vignettes of scenes from six of Raymond's plays consisting of a man handing another man a rolled document captioned "Risks." and depicting a scene from the comedy by Bartley Campbell; a man speaking in a courtroom captioned "Col. Sellers." and depicting a scene from the play "Colonel Sellers" based on the novel "The Gilded Age" by Mark Twain; a man trying to strangle another man before a well captioned "Wolfert's Roost." and depicting a scene from "Ichabod Crane" by George Fawcett Rowe and based on a story by Washington Irving; a young couple sitting in a romantic embrace on a couch captioned "Paradise" and depicting a scene from the play "In Paradise" by George Jessop and William Gill; a crowded political rally with signs, including one reading "For Congress Peter Woolley," depicting a scene from the play "For Congress" written by D. D. Lloyd; and a group of gypsy women surrounding a man, captioned "Fresh the American," and depicting a scene from the play by Archibald Clavering Gunter; with date information printed at top of image for a July 12, [1886], show at the Bush St. Theatre in San Francisco, California.

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John T. Raymond "in paradise."

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Image of an advertisement for John T. Raymond's production "In Paradise;" Major Robert Belter, Attorney at law, pictured at left in an evening suit with tails with waterfall in background; four vignette of scenes with the Major indoors in various social situations and one outdoors near a cabin.

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A powerful play of New York life : the girl he couldn't buy : by Sumner Nichols

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Image of a couple opening a bedroom door while the man, in a bowler hat, holds a gun and the woman holds his hand; this poster advertises the comedic melodrama "The Girl He Couldn't Buy" written by Sumner Nichols.

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Carrie Swain : "Ah! There!"

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Image of the smiling face of American actor Carrie Swain bursting through torn paper; the poster presumably advertises the comedic melodrama "Cad, the Tomboy" written by Leonard Grover.

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Mr. W. E. Burton, As Toodle, as originally played by him, over six hundred nights, at the various theatres in the United States

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Image of a full-length portrait of actor William E. Burton dressed as the character Timothy Toodle with a top hat and cane standing in a clearing in the woods; the poster advertises the comedic melodrama "The Toodles" adapted by Burton from the play "The Farmer's Daughter" by R. J. Raymond.

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John E. Owens in his famous pathetic & comic characters

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Image of a central vignette of a family sitting in a dining room on a snowy evening while a man lies dead on the ground next to a gun outside and a couple embraces in a barn, captioned "Dot, or the cricket on the hearth," with a top center vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of English-American comedic actor John Owens in formal dress, seven vignettes of portraits of Owens dressed as characters, captioned "Perkyn Middlewick the butterman," "Joshua Butterby," "Paul Pry," "John Unit," Major Wellington de Boots," Solon Shingle," and Dr. Pangloss, L.L.D. & A.S.S.," and six additional smaller vignettes of dramatic scenes.

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John T. Raymond as Major Bob. : in paradise

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