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Oliver Twist

Description: Image of a central image a boy about to hit another boy who lies on the ground below him but is being held back by a maid in a kitchen area, while another servant looks on at the fighting, captioned “Oliver plucks up a spirit”; with a top-left vignette of a boy on his knees pleading before a magistrate while a group of lawyers look on, disinterested, captioned “Oliver escapes from the sweep”; and a bottom-right vignette of a young boy asking for more gruel from a male cook while other boys sitting on benches at a dining table look on fearfully, and a woman stands in background; the poster depicts scenes form “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens.
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Date: between 1875 and 1900?
Call number: priJLC_ENT_002330
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Oliver Twist : Nancy Sikes

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Image of a full-length portrait of the character Nancy Sikes, a young, poor woman who stands on docks of a wharf next to a barrel and rope, with a view of London buildings, the river, and ships behind her; the title has a geometric black and white line background; the poster depicts a character from “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens.

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John E. Owens in his famous pathetic & comic characters

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Image of a central vignette of a family sitting in a dining room on a snowy evening while a man lies dead on the ground next to a gun outside and a couple embraces in a barn, captioned "Dot, or the cricket on the hearth," with a top center vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of English-American comedic actor John Owens in formal dress, seven vignettes of portraits of Owens dressed as characters, captioned "Perkyn Middlewick the butterman," "Joshua Butterby," "Paul Pry," "John Unit," Major Wellington de Boots," Solon Shingle," and Dr. Pangloss, L.L.D. & A.S.S.," and six additional smaller vignettes of dramatic scenes.

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The Barnum & Bailey musical elephant prodigies

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Image of a central image of five elephants playing horn instruments with female circus performers also playing horns while standing on the elephants' backs, with four vignettes of the elephants in various performances, captioned "Entirely New Elephant Performances," "The Gallant Pachyderms," "A Swiss Bell Quintet," and "The Grand Overture," and a small vignette of a head-and-shoulders portrait of elephant trainer Harry J. Mooney.

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Peck’s Bad Boy

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Image of a city street corner with a boy, character Henry Peck, squirting water from a flower on his jacket into the face of character grocer Max Schultz, while a girl and an Irish police officer look on and laugh; the poster advertises the comedy "Peck's Bad Boy" based on the stories by George W. Peck.

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Buffalo Bill Combination : Buffalo Bill's new drama 20 days or Buffalo Bill's pledge

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Image of a central image of a portrait of William F. Cody as Buffalo Bill sitting at a campfire in a frontiersman costume with a rifle and saddle, surrounded by eight vignettes of different dramatic scenes including a street parade with a horse-drawn cart labeled "Buffalo Bill To Night"; Cody digging at a hill with a knife in the wilderness with the caption "Buried Alive"; Cody holding up the head of a young injured man with the caption "He Still Lives"; a farmer sleeping on a plow pulled by two oxen while holding a book of the "Life of Buffalo Bill" while images of caricatured Native American Indians and a man hanging by a noose while another is burned at the stake appear in his dreams, captioned "The Farmer's Dream"; Cody on horseback cutting the rope of a hangman's noose from a young man’s neck who hangs from a tree, captioned "Whose Picnic Is this?"; a parlor scene where a man is shot while others look on, captioned "The 20 days are up, and my pledge fulfilled"; a man in a fistfight with Cody in the parlor and wielding a knife, captioned "Keep Cool Pard."; and Cody riding on horseback through the plains while a fire burns in the distance and a battle with Native American Indians on horseback goes on; with images of a bison with the caption "Diamond Pin with Diamond Eyes," at bottom of central image, and an eagle that holds a medal that reads "Congress to W. F. Cody Buffalo Bill Scout & Guide" at top; the poster advertises the melodrama "20 Days or Buffalo Bill's Pledge" (also known as "Twenty Days or Buffalo Bill's Pledge") and includes printed date information for performances beginning on December 11, [1882], at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Barnum & Bailey greatest show on Earth : les plus vastes les plus prodigieux spectacles du monde

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Image of Japanese aerialists, acrobats, and jugglers, some wearing kimonos, performing acts, with a lower left corner vignette of two men fighting with swords captioned "Exercices de Guerriers," and a lower right vignette of two men fencing, captioned "Escrime Japonaise"; small portrait of P.T. Barnum at upper left and small portrait of J. A. Bailey at upper right; with a French stamp and obscured Barnum and Bailey stamp at upper left.

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