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Taken from life

Description: Image of an outdoor scene in a courtyard with a fleeing man on a horse trying to escape a fallen police officer, with onlookers and a man with a pitchfork threatening a couple in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "Taken From Life" written by Henry Pettitt.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 188-
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000433
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.

Union Square Theatre success : a prisoner for life

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Image of a young man and an old man in historical costumes trying to escape a jail cell, with the young man holding open a bag and the older man breaking the blocks of the cell wall with a metal rod; the poster advertises the melodrama "A Prisoner for Life" adapted from a French play by Louis Nathal.

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John A. Stevens in his renowned creation the new unknown

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Image of an outdoor scene with a woman lying dead on the ground as a man mourns over her body and a man in a sailor suit points at another man, presumably the murderer, while a group of onlookers watch; the poster advertises a rewritten version of the melodrama "The Unknown" by John A. Stevens.

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Constable Hook Company

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Image of an outdoor scene with people in historical costumes running about a courtyard while flames come out of burning building, with a well in the background, and a man trying to trap another man in a wooden barrel, an old woman fighting with a man on the ground and about to hit him with a cane, and a couple embracing.

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The comedy drama the new Fogg’s ferry by Chas E. Callahan

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Image of a young man trying to help a disheveled young woman in rumpled clothing who kneels on a park lawn, while another woman, wearing a hat decorated with a bird, clenches her fist as if to hit them; the poster advertises the comedic melodrama "New Fogg's Ferry" written by Charles Callahan, presumably as an updated version of his 1882 play "Fogg's Ferry."

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The black valley in great sensation drama of Peep O’Day

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Image of an outdoor scene near a rock quarry in Ireland with a young woman trying to fight off a man attacking her with a shovel while a man swinging from a tree limb attempts to rescue her, and a man stands on a cliff above near a windmill, with a lake in the background; the poster advertisers the Irish melodrama "Peep o' Day" written by Edmund Falconer, and based on a story by Irish writer John Banim, as performed by actor Mrs. D.P. Bowers (Elizabeth Crocker Bowers) at the New Chesnut Street Theatre (also spelled New Chestnut Street Theatre) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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O. Vill's lager beer : Minnesota City, Minn

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Image of a king in robes and hose surrounded by various characters in ethnic costume reveling and drinking beer, including a German barmaid, a Zouave soldier, Uncle Sam, an Arabian man, a Chinese man with a long braid, a Native American, a barkeep, and three gnomes trying to keep a goat from ramming a man who has fallen to the ground with his beer stein; scrolls with text in German advertising Bavarian beer flank the center advertisement text; vignettes in the two bottom corners show the interiors of a brewing vat and a barrel room full of brewery workers.

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Taken from life

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