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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
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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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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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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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Paradise Brand

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Image of a woman with long black hair reaching up to pick oranges from a tree branch; orange grove and mountains in background.

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The high sport hand made sour mash whiskey

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Image of a whiskey barrel label depicting a wilderness scene showing a pair of frontiersmen fighting off a bear attack in a forest; one wounded hunter lies prone on the ground with a rifle in his hand while a large brown bear stands over him; the other man holds a hatchet in an upraised hand ready to strike; three hunting dogs snarl and lunge at the bear; image in circular embellished frame with monogram of the intertwined initials " "L," "L," and "& H" at left and right.

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Harper's August

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Image of an advertisement for Harper's magazine August 1895 issue featuring a woman holding onto a rope as she leans down to pick up a copy of Harper's from the water at the beach.

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The Danites

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