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Peck’s Bad Boy

Description: Image of a city street corner with a boy, character Henry Peck, squirting water from a flower on his jacket into the face of character grocer Max Schultz, while a girl and an Irish police officer look on and laugh; the poster advertises the comedy "Peck's Bad Boy" based on the stories by George W. Peck.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 191-
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000423
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Peck’s Bad Boy

Visual Materials

Image of a city street with two children stealing fruit from a sleeping woman's sidewalk stand, with the boy, character Henry Peck, putting bananas and apples in a basket while a girl places a sign "Take all you want" on the stand, and a police officer sleeps in the alley behind; both the stand owner and police officer have red noses and are presumably Irish; the poster advertises the comedy "Peck's Bad Boy" based on the stories by George W. Peck.

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Frank W. Sanger’s company supporting John F. Sheridan : in Mrs. Bridget O’Brien Esq

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Image of American actor and comedian John Sheridan dressed as the female character Mrs. O’Brien, an old woman in a feathered hat, entering through a door carrying hat boxes and an umbrella, with a painted screen with an image of a heron landing on a pond in the background; the poster advertises the farce comedy "Mrs. Bridget O'Brien, Esq." that was based on a character by that name in the 1880s comedy "Fun on the Bristol."

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George Peck’s grand revival of Stetson’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin : booked by Klaw & Erlanger

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Image of a full-length portrait of the character Marks the lawyer with a top hat, cane, umbrella, and bag; the poster advertises a revival by George Peck of the play "Uncle Tom's Cabin" adapted by the Stetson Company from the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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M.W. Hanley's Company presenting Edward Harrigan's latest New York success McSorley's Inflation

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Image of an eight-page theatrical courier including the front cover with a bust statue of American playwright and actor Edward Harrigan being pointed to by a caricature of Martin W. Hanley who stands nearby with a globe; a back cover page with an image presumably of Irish-American character Peter McSorley talking to his wife, portrayed by a female impersonator, in her grocery stall at Washington Market with watermelons and chickens in the background; a page with the lyrics of songs from the play including some written by Dave Braham; a page with the show's program; a page with three vignettes of an African American military regiment marching through the streets captioned "Charleston Blues," a six-piece band playing in the street with the sign "Salvation Army," and two women arguing in a grocery store captioned "Washington Market"; a page with seven vignettes of character portraits of a man at different ages including as a baby, child, soldier, and old man titled "The Seven Ages in 'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare"; a page with short humorous articles as well as statistics of the "Population of States and Territories in 1880"; a page with two vignettes of a crowd of dancing white men and women and black men captioned "McNally's Row of Flats," and a street scene with a grocer arguing with a man while a woman looks on and a Chinese immigrant falls out of a window while holding a trombone, and an African American man carries a bundle of laundry into a store with storefront signs for the "Coroner's Office" and "Hung Lung Laundry" behind and the caption "Chinese Must Go"; the courier advertises the musical comedy "McSorley's Inflation" written by Edward Harrigan.

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A tin soldier by Chas. H. Hoyt

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Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of a man in character wearing a hat, neckerchief, and overalls; the poster advertises the comedy "A Tin Solider" by Charles H. Hoyt.

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Mr. W. J. Florence, the Irish comedian as Paddy Finnegan in his Irish drama of Mike the miner

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Image of American actor and comedian William Florence (also known as Billy Florence) dressed as the Irish tramp character Paddy Finnegan wearing a ragged top hat and carrying a hobo satchel on the end of a stick; the poster advertises the drama "Mike, the Miner" written by Florence.

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