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Salvini : supported by an American company

Description: Image of a head-and-shoulders portrait of Italian actor Tommaso Salvini, in an oval frame decorated with a laurel wreath, centered between four vignettes of Salvini with male and female performers in historic costumes performing in scenes from three tragedies by William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Hamlet, and Othello, and the play "Ingomar, the Barbarian" by Maria Anne Lovell, and including Salvini holding a skull in a cemetery and wearing a fur cape as a tribesman with a Greek young woman holding a spear and shield.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 188-
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000429
Creator: Last, Jay T

Art and artifice in Shakespeare : a study in dramatic contrast and illusion

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Deals chiefly with the tragedies; with special studies of Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet and King Lear.

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Lucilline

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Image of an advertisement for Lucilline balm made by Lucent Oil Work of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; a woman in robes and a cape wearing a laurel wreath on the head sits and gazes upward raptly while holding paper and a quill pen on her lap.

priJLC_ART_003056

Volunteer Refreshment Saloon, supported gratuitously by the citizens of Philadelphia, Pa

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Image of interior and exterior views of the Volunteer Refreshment Saloon in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil War; soldiers board a Philadelphia & Baltimore Railroad troop train as spectators cheer; interior views of washing department, dining saloon and cooking department; bald eagle with American flags and laurel wreath frame a portrait of General Winfield Scott at bottom center; facsimile signatures of committee members in bottom margin.

priJLC_MIL_000837

Tony Denier’s Humpty Dumpty. : Mammoth double specialty company, all star artists

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Image of a royal court of whiteface clowns with a clown king on a throne labeled "The Master Mime" crowning the kneeling clown Alfred Miaco with a laurel wreath, with a line of clowns, a court jester, two female performers, statues on the wall labeled Denier, Fox, and Grimaldi, and a curtain labeled "Afe Llo Wofi Nfi Ni Tej Est"; vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of pantomime troupe manager Tony Denier in formal dress at top left in a laurel leaf frame; the poster advertises Denier's Humpty Dumpty Company.

priJLC_ENT_000355

Square text alphabet

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Image of a page of calligraphy and penmanship examples featuring an angel with herald trumpet and laurel wreath above and a winged dragon below an alphabet in square text script.

priJLC_EDU_003836

[Grand Army of the Republic blank military certificate]

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Image of a Grand Army of the Republic blank military certificate decorated with several vignettes depicting army and navy battle scenes, soldiers and sailors, and a pair of deathbed scenes; goddess Columbia with American eagle, Union shield, American flag, and laurel wreath at top center; G.A.R. badge with flag and wreath at bottom center.

priJLC_MIL_000848

Salvini : supported by an American company

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