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The Danites

Description: Image of two side-by-side panels showing a young woman on the porch of a log-cabin post office and saloon surrounded by frontiersmen and miners before and after being asked if she is married; the wall includes the signs "Post Offise," "Minen Implementze Fur Sail Hear" and "Howling Wilderness Salone" and there is a center decoration of a rifle and mining equipment including a gold pan, shovel, and pick; with date text information for shows on January 20-22, at the Academy of Music; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Danites, or, Heart of the Sierras" written by Arthur McKee Rankin and Joaquin Miller.
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Date: ©1878
Call number: priJLC_ENT_001343
Creator

Mrs. McKee Rankin

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Image of a full-length portrait of the American actor Kitty Blanchard (Mrs. McKee Rankin) holding her hands up while performing in costume as the character Carrots, with red hair and a torn blue apron; the poster advertises the Western melodrama "49" (or "Forty-Nine").

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The Great New York Lyric Theatre success : the wolf : a play of the Canadian woods by Eugene Walter

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Image of a landscape view of a wilderness area with three frontiersmen, two of whom smoke pipes, and a young woman with a bucket sitting and standing in a clearing and eavesdropping on a conversation between two young men, with a lake, cabin, and trees in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Wolf, a play of the Canadian woods" by Eugene Walter.

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Shadows of a great city. : Act II

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Image of two men in prisoner uniforms, with one carrying a child as he scales down a pole on the side of a house's porch while the other man stands on the ground and reaches up, with a date stamp for performances beginning on January 19, [1885], at the Boston Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts; the poster advertises the melodrama "Shadows of a Great City" by L. R. Shewell.

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Otsego Hall, the residence of James Fenimore Cooper Esq

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Image of Otsego Hall, the castellated Gothic country house owned and remodeled by James Fenimore Cooper in Cooperstown, New York; two frontiersmen stand on the lawn in foreground.

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Roland Reed the great eccentric comedian : in the new comedy drama: Cheek

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Image of a full-length portrait of comedian Roland Reed with vignettes of four scenes from the comedic melodrama "Cheek" by Frederick Mardsen, with captions of text between characters Ted and Dick and quotes from newspaper reviews of the play in the Chicago Times, Chicago Inter-Ocean, Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Herald, the St. Louis Republican, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, the Boston Herald, and the Boston Daily Globe; with date information for a show at the Worcester Theatre on November 7, [1883].

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The planter’s wife

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Image of two men wearing suits in a confrontation on a balcony; the poster advertises the melodrama "The Planter's Wife" by James K. Tillotson.

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The Danites

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