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French flats

Description: Image of a central image of men and woman, including a maid, standing in an apartment lobby with moving trunks, boxes, and suitcases in disarray and glass falling from the ceiling; surrounded by six vignettes of full-length portraits of characters including an older man looking at a hat with the remnants of a broken hatbox around him and another man singing; each image is labeled with Roman numerals between I-VII; the poster advertises the comedy "French Flats" adapted by Augustus R. Cazauran from the French play "Les Locataires de M. Blondeau" by Henri Chivot.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1879
Call number: priJLC_ENT_000982
Creator: Last, Jay T

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Image of a train platform with nine caricatured men and women including a Chinese immigrant with his back turned, a female impersonator, and a man with a monkey sitting on a box on his back, standing at center with luggage and trunks and a crowd of passengers watching from a railroad train car labeled "Drawing Room Car"; with a vignette head-and-shoulders portrait of comedian and character actor John Thompson at upper left in an oval leaf frame; the poster advertises the comedic show "Around the World" (also known as "Around the World in Eighty Minutes").

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