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Salsbury’s Troubadours

Description: Image of six head-and-shoulders portraits of the two female and four male members of the comic troupe Salsbury's Troubadours wearing formal dress, in oval frames surrounded by plants, a crane, a turtle, and two anthropomorphized singing frogs; the portraits are unlabeled but presumably include troupe members Nate Salsbury, Nellie McHenry, and John L. Webster.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: between 1875 and 1887
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000427
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance

The brook : Salsburys Troubadours

Visual Materials

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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Salsbury’s Troubadours

Visual Materials

Image of six indoor and outdoor scenes performed by the comic troupe Salsbury's Troubadours including a winter sleigh scene with a horse-drawn sleigh in the snow, and dramatic and musical scenes with characters in historic and contemporary costumes and including royalty, individuals holding swords, musicians with mandolins and bells, and a woman holding a glass of wine; a head-and-shoulders portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in a circle frame at upper right.

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Salsbury's Troubadours : Nellie McHenry

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Image of a half-length portrait of actor and Salsbury's Troubadours member Nellie McHenry, wearing a large feathered blue hat and a dress decorated with a bird and butterfly, looking out of a wooden window adorned with morning glory flowers; with date sheet for a March 16, [1886], show at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at the bottom of the poster.

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Sweet home soap J. L. Sarkin & Co. Buffalo, N.Y

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Image of a five-fold leaflet advertising Sweet Home family soap manufactured by J. L. Sarkin & Co. of Buffalo, N.Y.; six panels illustrate the phases of a romantic relationship with a pair of anthropomorphized owls and frogs, including admiration, consummation, dissipation, desperation, reparation, and restoration; image of a pocket watch, retail information and testimonials on verso.

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National Theatre

Visual Materials

Printer: Blade Printing & Paper Co. With woodcut head-and-shoulder portraits of four female members of Living Statue Troupe of Prof. J. Lawrence

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Geo. H. Adams own new Humpty Dumpty Troupe

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Image of three panels showing performances of a whiteface clown and an old man in short pants; the four members of the acrobatic troupe the Martinetti Family in a balancing act with one man standing on two upside down chairs while he holds up two female performers and another man stands on his head; and six vignettes of the Bernardo's jugglers doing juggling acts with knives, balancing tops, and fire sticks, including one before an Egyptian pyramid; the poster advertises the Humpty Dumpty Troupe of George Adams.

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