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Nanon

Description: Image of five vignettes with scenes of characters in historic and burlesque costumes in a royal French ballroom with a central staircase, dancing, and on a stage before curtains, with characters including French monarchs in large wigs and nuns; the poster advertises the comic opera "Nanon," set in Paris, France, during the reign of King Louis XIV, and originally written in German by librettist Camillo Walzel (under the pseudonym F. Zell) with a score by Richard Genee, and includes date information for performances beginning on October 5, [1885], at the Colonel Sinn's Park Theatre in Brooklyn, New York.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1885
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000420
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[French aristocrats, women, and nuns on a staircase]

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Image of French aristocratic men in historic costumes and long hair embracing women around the stone stairs of an abbey with nuns and soldiers with rifles in the background; the poster may advertise the comic opera "Nanon" set in Paris, France, during the reign of King Louis XIV, and originally written in German by librettist Camillo Walzel (under the pseudonym F. Zell) with a score by Richard Genee.

priJLC_ENT_000988

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Image of a political cartoon showing United States President Martin Van Buren shopping for wigs (in a play on words of the Whig party); the clerk tells Van Buren that the wigs are not made for his type but offers him some "conservative oil" while a devil representing the Loco Focos (the radical faction of the New York Democrats) offers him an "uncontaminated" wig that is visibly full of bugs; wigs on stands labeled "'76" are lined up on the counter with additional stock in boxes on the floor.

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ephJLC_CIT_000984

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Image of a central image of men and woman, including a maid, standing in an apartment lobby with moving trunks, boxes, and suitcases in disarray and glass falling from the ceiling; surrounded by six vignettes of full-length portraits of characters including an older man looking at a hat with the remnants of a broken hatbox around him and another man singing; each image is labeled with Roman numerals between I-VII; the poster advertises the comedy "French Flats" adapted by Augustus R. Cazauran from the French play "Les Locataires de M. Blondeau" by Henri Chivot.

priJLC_ENT_000982

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