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Royce & Lansing’s Musical Comedy Co. : In our private tutors

Description: Image of eight actors in costume performing as various roles including a center image of two men with one holding a piece of sheet music and a baton, and smaller images of six other performers including a girl, two young women holding school books and an umbrella, a man wearing theatrical tights and holding a shield and sword before a book labeled "Al. G. Bray" on the floor, a man dressed as a boy with books, and a man holding a broom before a box labeled "Chewing Gum"; the poster advertises the musical comedy "Our Private Tutors" performed by the company of Ray L. Royce and Web Lansing.
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Date: approximately 1887
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000426
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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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Zozo the magic queen

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Image of a collage of images centered on a young man in an aristocratic historical costume with tights holding up a head-and-shoulders portrait of a young woman, and surrounded by a villain holding a knife, young scantily clad women in classical dress holding the strings for puppet caricatures of five men including a female impersonator, an older man, a man holding an American flag, and an Irish man; with a large bat, full moon, gothic sculptures, and waves hitting a rocky shore; the poster advertises the dramatic spectacle "Zozo, the Magic Queen."

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Messett’s musical entertainers

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Image of a caricature of an African American man holding a top hat and standing with a ripped umbrella in the rain looking at a rooster on a wooden fence.

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The Henry Burlesque Co. : Ada Henry

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Image of a full-length portrait of burlesque performer Ada Henry in a burlesque formal riding costume impersonating a man with a long riding coat, top hat, ruffled shirt, cummerbund, blue garter, tights; with a vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Ada Henry in formal female dress at top left bordered by leaves.

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Built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. Manchester, N.H

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Image of a side view of a steam fire engine, with a driver and two horses, and seven firefighters, some wearing hats labeled "S F E" and holding fire hoses, standing around the vehicle outdoors; the engine's cylinder is labeled "Amoskeag" and has hoses attached including one labeled "Boyd's Patent Hose."

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George Knight's Comedy Co. over the garden wall by Scott Marble

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Image of an outdoor courtyard with two servants and a man pushing two baby carriages and holding crying babies while onlookers watch; with vignettes of head-and-shoulder portraits of German comedian George S. Knight and his wife, American burlesque performer Sophie Worrell Knight, at bottom center; fragment of a date sheet for the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the musical and burlesque show "Over the Garden Wall" by Scott Marble that was produced by the Knights.

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