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Wrinkles

Description: Image of a central image of a duel between a fat Dutch man wearing clogs and a sailor, both with pistols; surrounded by three vignettes of the Dutch man being teased by two dancing girls, the Dutch man and a man wearing a bib marked "Liver Pad" sharing a bed labeled "Pat. Folding Bed" while rats scurry on the floor below; and a police officer taking the Dutch man away in handcuffs while another man holds a dancing girl who has fainted; images decorated with flowers, a twig border, and in the lower panel a musical horn and a plate of food with fork and bottle of soda; with a fragment of a Fulton Opera House date sheet pasted at bottom; the poster advertises the comedy "Wrinkles" or "1000 wrinkles" by Dutch comedian Harry Watson.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: ©1884
Call number: priJLC_ENT_002545

Dirkje

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Image of a full-length portrait of a small Dutch girl wearing Dutch bonnet cap, long-sleeved dress and wooden shoes (clogs).

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Image of a full-length portrait of a small Dutch boy wearing voluminous wide pants and large wooden shoes (clogs).

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Harry Watson : the funniest

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Image of a caricature of Dutch comedian Harry Watson wearing clogs and carrying a carpetbag with the initials "H.W." on the side while walking a small dog on a leash who is looking at an insect.

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Image of a central image of an older African American man in a torn shirt and suspenders kneeling before Abraham Lincoln who holds a handwritten copy of the “Emancipation Proclamation” with broken shackles at his feet, captioned “Abolition of Slavery”; with an upper-left image of Eliza, a young mother, and a young girl coming to Uncle Tom and his wife, who holds a candle, in their pajamas before their cabin at night, captioned “Eliza seeking protection of Uncle Tom”; a lower-left image of Eva, a young blond girl lying in a small bed with white and African American mourners crowding around the bed and a night stand with a cup, small bottle, and box on it, captioned “Death of Eva”;an upper-right image of an African American man and woman dancing in the front yard of a cabin in a wooded area with African American onlookers and a man playing a banjo, captioned “Pastimes in the sunny South”; a lower-right image of Topsy, a young African American girl wearing a potato sack dress that read “18 [space] CH,” throwing a bonnet while sitting on a messy floor next to a can while a white woman in formal dress looks on aghast; the poster presumably advertises an Uncle Tom’s Cabin show.

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Japanese napkin. : The centennial. : Uncle Sam presents the foreign delegates with a specimen of American energy and enterprise

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Image of a crowded cartoon-like scene of Uncle Sam standing with foreign delegates in front of an exhibit hall at the United States Centennial Exhibition held in 1876 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and handing out cartons labeled "Valentine's Varnish"; the foreign delegates are depicted as caricatures including a Chinese man wearing clogs, a Native American Indian and an Eskimo tasting the varnish, a man wearing a German Pickelhaube helmet, the back of a Scottish man in a kilt, and other individuals including men riding a camel, elephant, and giraffe; the goddess Columbia sits in the background at the center top of the building with an American eagle and shield; the image is printed in blue ink on a thin paper napkin with an ornate ivy border.

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T. J. Farron’s soap bubble

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Image of a scene of a man dancing on a city rooftop wearing a top hat and holding a gun and a lantern; the poster advertises the musical comedy "A Soap Bubble" written by Montgomery Phister.

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