Visual Materials

Salsbury's Troubadours : Nellie McHenry

Description: Image of a half-length portrait of actor and Salsbury's Troubadours member Nellie McHenry, wearing a large feathered blue hat and a dress decorated with a bird and butterfly, looking out of a wooden window adorned with morning glory flowers; with date sheet for a March 16, [1886], show at the Fulton Opera House in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pasted at the bottom of the poster.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1885
Call number: priJLC_ENT_002544
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance

Salsbury’s Troubadours

Visual Materials

Image of six head-and-shoulders portraits of the two female and four male members of the comic troupe Salsbury's Troubadours wearing formal dress, in oval frames surrounded by plants, a crane, a turtle, and two anthropomorphized singing frogs; the portraits are unlabeled but presumably include troupe members Nate Salsbury, Nellie McHenry, and John L. Webster.

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Salsbury’s Troubadours

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Image of six indoor and outdoor scenes performed by the comic troupe Salsbury's Troubadours including a winter sleigh scene with a horse-drawn sleigh in the snow, and dramatic and musical scenes with characters in historic and contemporary costumes and including royalty, individuals holding swords, musicians with mandolins and bells, and a woman holding a glass of wine; a head-and-shoulders portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte in a circle frame at upper right.

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The brook : Salsburys Troubadours

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Image of a group of eight female and male performers in a rowboat on a lake with individuals playing a violin to two howling dogs, rowing the boat, looking through a telescope at a hat, singing from sheet music, popping the cork on a bottle of champagne, catching a turtle on a fishing line, and playing a practical joke with a frog; the poster advertises the musical comedy "The Brook" performed by Salsbury's Troubadours.

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fashions for the spring of 1874. Published by the "Domestic" Sewing Machine Co

Visual Materials

Image of thirteen framed vignettes featuring clothing for women and children; fashion details include voluminous, long bustled skirts with ruffled and gathered detailing and varying overskirts, fitted bodices with adorned sleeves, lace ribbons, and mantles; accessories include reticules, parasols, feathered hats, lace headdress, nosegays, fans, boots, and handkerchiefs; two elaborate interlocking monograms "D.S.M.C." flank the large center panel; reference key for figures numbered 1-18 in margins.

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