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Flora Moore : "drummer in petticoats."

Description: Image of the interior of a dry goods store with stools at wooden counters with fabrics displayed on shelves behind and a man at center trapped in a wooden crate labeled "Consdale / Wamsulta & Co / B" that has just fallen on him from a trap door in the ceiling, with store clerks and customers looking on; with fragment of date sheet for a February 16 show pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the comedy "Drummer in Petticoats"
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1885
Call number: priJLC_ENT_002542
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

S. H. & M. skirt binding counter : John Wanamaker Philadelphia

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Image of the skirt binding counter area at the John Wanamaker store; wooden stools at a wooden store counter with racks and spools of "bias velveteen" and "bias corded velvet" skirt bindings displayed in many colors; print verso contains a single-color advertisement for J.W. Goddard & Sons with elaborate floral border from the trade journal "Dry Goods Economist."

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Blaney’s extravaganza success ----- a female drummer

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Image of an interior view of a department store crowded with female customers, African American porters, and an Irish policemen during a corset sale; a female impersonator stands with a man atop a store counter, with a sign below the counter "Flags for all nations except one Smooth, Silk & C[?]", and a woman attempts to get into an elevator; the poster advertises the comedic play "A Female Drummer" by Charles E. Blaney.

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Hanlon Bros. stupendous spectacular novelty superba

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Image of a caricature of a frightened fisherman in a marsh hooked on his own fishing line and trapped on a log between an alligator attacking from the left and a hippopotamus emerging from the water at right; the poster advertises pantomime spectacle "Superba" produced by the Hanlon Brothers.

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Young drummer boy with his mother

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A studio portrait of a Union drummer boy with his mother. The boy is standing on the left, turned slightly to the right, and is resting his left hand on his mother's shoulder. The mother is seated, wearing a wide skirted dress with dark lines of trim on the sleeves and skirt, with lace decorations at the cuffs and the collar, and with a cameo brooch at the center of the collar. The photograph is mounted in a dark brown case lined with red velvet, within a gilt-decorated setting.

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Printer: F.A. Searle, Printer With woodcut image of a portrait of actor Ettie Henderson for "Pet of the Petticoats"

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Image of a seven-piece minstrel band with African American children, a conductor, and a drummer playing musical instruments outdoors with a sunset behind them.

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Flora Moore : "drummer in petticoats."

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