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Dainty Fanny Rice : America’s queen of mirth and music

Description: Image of a full-length portrait of American performer Fanny Rice sitting atop a stone pedestal outdoors and holding a yellow rose in her hand, and wearing a dancing costume with a short-sleeved corseted top, skirt, and petticoat, and a white hat with a floral decoration, with yellow roses in her lap and tree leaves and branches behind her.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1894
Call number: priJLC_ENT_002332
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance

Dimon & Disbrow Utica, N. Y. : The very best

Visual Materials

Image of an advertisement for shoe company Dimon & Disbrow; a woman in a long skirt pulls her hem up to display her heeled boots with buttons; fashion details include gathered, bustled skirt with fringe and bow details, mantle with large tassel edging, lace petticoat and lace collar; accessories include black heeled boots with buttons, gloves, small handbag, and floral hat embellished with bows and ribbon.

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May Irwin

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Image of a full-length portrait of performer May Irwin wearing a black and white formal dress with a floral pattern, ruffled skirt, and train, with a red ribbon, and holding her hand up to her chin.

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[Woman in checkered skirt with golf clubs]

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Image of a woman wearing a checkered skirt and long-sleeved blouse with coordinating cape and feathered hat stepping down from an automobile at a golf course; bag with golf clubs in vehicle; border of pink ribbon and golf clubs ; a photographer stands on a stone wall to take her image at top right.

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Reilly & Woods classic vaudevilles Pat Reilly proprietor & manager

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Image of four female can-can dancers kicking their legs and lifting their skirt and petticoat trims; border decorated with palm fronds; the poster advertises a show performed by Reilly & Wood's Classic Vaudeville Company.

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Messett’s Musical Entertainers

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Image of three head-and-shoulders portraits of the three Brazziers: William, George, and Rufus wearing formal dress, with four vignettes of the acrobatic dancing troupe, known as "grotesque elastic dancers," performing as clowns and dancers in a skirt, with a king's crown, and in black bodysuits atop a table and chair and three barrels; the poster advertises the troupe's act with Colonel Thomas E. Snelbaker traveling "Majestic Consolidation" show.

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Dainty Fanny Rice : America’s queen of mirth and music

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