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100 Wives

Description: Image of a crowd of men and women, presumably Mormons in a wagon train, standing in a clearing in a forest with an older woman and girl in tattered clothes embracing at center, with a basket, a campfire with a pot cooking above, covered wagons, horses, and trunks, nearby, and the mountains and trees visible in the distance; fragment of a date sheet pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the Mormon-focused melodrama "100 Wives" written by Gil Pierce and James B. Runnion.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1880
Call number: priJLC_ENT_002532
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

De Wolf Hopper will appear in 100 Wives

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Image of a three-quarter-length portrait of actor De Wolf Hopper standing with arms folded in formal dress; with date sheet for a March 2, [1882], show at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at bottom; the poster advertises Hopper in the Mormon-focused melodrama "100 Wives" written by Gil Pierce and James B. Runnion.

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The marvelous melo-dramatic success. : "A great wrong" written by John A. Stevens

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Image of a military officer in uniform embracing a woman, with a clock and palm tree fronds visible in the background; the poster advertises the melodrama "A Great Wrong" (also titled "A Great Wrong Righted") written by John Stevens.

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Blue Jeans "will never wear out" by Joseph Arthur author of "The still alarm."

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Image of an advertising poster for the melodrama "Blue Jeans" by Joseph Arthur with four "features" showcased in vignettes; "The Big Political Barbecue" scene at top center shows a large crowd of people toasting with raised cups outdoors with a band at left and a pair of women embracing at right; "Thrilling Sawmill Scene" in a saw mill showing an unconscious man on a moving conveyor belt about to be cut in half by a saw blade while the villain looks on and a woman breaks through an office door with a chair at left to rescue the man; "The Great Lynching Scene" in the sawmill with a women standing over the unconscious man while a crowd of men gathers to apprehend the villain; bottom center the "Rising Sun Roarers" musicians stand playing around a drum major with baton raised in one hand.

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Gold Seeker Brand

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Image of a prospector smoking a pipe while walking with his horse; tent, campfire and mountains in background.

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Boy Scout Brand

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Image of a boy scout in the wilderness with campfire, tent and mountainside in background; Premium Orange Distributors logo at lower right.

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General Benjamin Harrison

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Image of a full-length portrait of American Civil War Union General Benjamin Harrison on horseback with a sword raised in one hand; soldiers march in ranks behind him with a tattered American flag at the Battle of Resaca, Georgia, in 1864.

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